Companies making retired workers pay more for health care, study ...
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Retirees who receive health benefits from their former employers saw premiums shoot up an average of 25 percent this year, a new study says.
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WASHINGTON -- Without a doubt, many employees who have access to a retirement plan at work contribute some money to it.
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Most Americans have gotten sizable life-extending bang for their medical bucks over recent decades, according to a study of health care value.
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To reduce costs, a number of employers are giving away drugs to help workers manage chronic conditions.
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Charging workersâ out-of-pocket costs for medicines may be more than offset by reduced productivity, study finds.
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Some of the biggest U.S. employers said on Wednesday that health care coverage and retirement plans for American workers should be delivered by competing third-party benefit administrators such as banks, investment companies and insurers.
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First they tried nudging. Now companies are penalizing workers who have high health risks such as obesity and high blood pressure or cholesterol as insurance costs climb.
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The U.S. Medicare program will charge   lower than expected premiums next year in the U.S. health   insurance plan for the elderly, but wealthier recipients for   the first time will pay more for doctor visits and other care   outside the hospital.
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Employers are facing continued double-digit increases in health care costs in 2005 and likely will require their workers to pay an even greater share of the bill, according to a new survey of more than 900 firms.    The survey, released Thursday by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, found that employers expect health care costs to rise 12.9 percent on average next year if they leave benefits unchanged...
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Most people would contribute towards the costs of long-term care but want a fairer system, a report shows.
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NEW YORK  - A growing number of Americans are devoting a large share of their paychecks to healthcare, and some are skipping medical care because of it, researchers reported Tuesday.
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Dec. 14, 2004 - Some of America&#39;s largest employers saw the cost of covering medical care for former workers go up about 25% between 2003 and 2004, continuing a trend that analysts warn is threatening the
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New, sharply higher charges announced for Medicare beneficiaries this month may prompt more elderly people to join Medicare health maintenance organizations operated by private industry, according to insurance executives and industry analysts.
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Sept. 10, 2004 -- American workers&#39; soaring health care costs could have a one small upside: They seem to be spurring companies to get more serious about worker health in a desperate bid to save money.
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Employers may continue the long-standing practice of taking Medicare into account when structuring the health care benefits voluntarily provided their retired workers, says the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a rule published in response to a 2000 court decision.
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DETROIT - As bargainers for the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. continue to haggle across a table in Detroit, the big issue in the critical contract talks comes down to this: If GM pays the union to take on the company's huge retiree healthcare obligations, can the UAW's investments return more than the rate of healthcare inflation?
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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