Retireesâ Health Costs Loom Over U.A.W. Talks
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The generous health benefits paid by automakers will be a crucial sticking point in pivotal union negotiations.
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Most seniors and the disabled selected Medicare drug plans with a significant gap in coverage and Democratic lawmakers say that's because bridging it would have cost them, on average, nearly $40 a month more.
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Retirees with company-sponsored medical benefits face higher costs, more restrictions and different plan options as their former employers move to curb their spending on such perks, a new study said.
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A decade after President Bill  Clinton's ambitious scheme to overhaul U.S. health care turned  into a political debacle, some are wondering whether President  Bush's Social Security plan could go the same way.
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No, tell us how you really feel. This Labor Day, workers are saying their biggest work problems are mostly economic. Their pay is not keeping up with increasing health-care costs or other increases in living expenses. They are disgruntled enough to look for work on the job. Retirement "security"...
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DETROIT The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked General Motors and Ford to provide information on their pension and retiree health care plans.
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Retirees for a third straight year are paying double-digit increases for healthcare coverage through their former employers, which are shifting a greater
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Retirees for a third straight year are paying double-digit increases for healthcare coverage through their former employers, which are shifting a greater share of the cost to new retirees, according to a study released yesterday.
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Big U.S. businesses will in general  maintain retiree health benefits next year despite fears they  would be cut to compensate for benefits to the elderly in the  new Medicare law, a survey found.
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WASHINGTON -- Filling the doughnut hole in Medicare drug plans would cost seniors and the disabled about $40 a month more.
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Older Americans will have to pay about 17 percent more next year for their government-run health insurance, US officials announced on Friday.
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Squeezed by soaring health-care costs and dwindling pensions, ever more Americans are choosing to postpone retirement -- and the Washington region leads the nation when it comes to working past age 65, according to census figures released today.
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Calls are deepening for the government to assume more of the costs of medical care through nationalized health care.
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With fewer employers providing retiree health insurance than in the past, you may have to shop for insurance to cover your health-care costs between retirement and qualifying for Medicare. Here are some tips from Cheryl Matheis, director of health strategy for AARP:
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The United Automobile Workers union has cracked open the door a little wider to the kind of deal on retiree health benefits that Detroit auto companies would like to see.
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Home care provider will feel the pinch from lower Medicare reimbursement.
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Health-care initiatives aimed at federal retirees and employees are under consideration in Congress and in the Bush administration.