Carmakers in for a Long Haul in Paying Retiree Health Care
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For older domestic manufacturers like General Motors, health care represents a severe financial burden.
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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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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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Consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) are coming, as businesses shift costs to employees.
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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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A decade after U.S. automakers  supported Hillary Clinton's failed plan to transform the U.S.  health-care system, the car companies are taking a more  cautious approach even as costs climb at threatening rates.
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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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When millions of American workers sign up for annual company benefits this fall, many will be given an option for a dramatically different kind of health care package known as a health savings account, or HSA.
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U.S. regulators asked automotive giants  General Motors Corp. GM.Nand Ford Motor Co. F.N for  information on how they account for pension and health care  plans, the companies said on Tuesday.
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But innovative fund secures healthcare for retirees even if General Motors goes bankrupt.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Despite absorbing three straight years of double-digit increases in retiree health-care costs, more than half of employers that offer retiree health and drug coverage plan to keep it when the Medicare prescription drug benefit
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Most U.S. employers are planning to  further scale back health benefits offered to retirees, as  companies struggle with the upward march in the cost of medical  care and weigh increased contributions from government&#039;s  Medicare program, a survey found.
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General Motors and the United Auto Workers have put back on the table a giant health-care trust fund that has been at the heart of their contract talks, a source close to the discussions said Friday night.
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Like it or not, health savings accounts are coming soon to an employer near you.
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Protracted negotiations between Lucent Technologies and its unions resulted in a contract agreement yesterday requiring 70,000 retirees and 3,250 active employees for the first time to pay a portion of their health premiums.
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Automakers over the last decade have expanded their lineup of vehicles catering to the needs of disabled people and the elderly. A Toyota Motor Corp.
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The auto maintenance company has a simple business but a complicated prognosis.