Most employers cutting retiree health care: study
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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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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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Workers in small businesses are less likely to receive health insurance from their employers, as premiums rose by 11.2% over the last year.
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Five-year, $1.8 billion cost-cutting contract approved Thursday also reduces retirement benefits, increases work hours and eliminates retiree medical coverage.
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Many companies are playing a bigger role in managing and monitoring their workersâ health in an effort to cut health care costs.
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Some of the nationâs biggest companies will announce a new program meant to make health insurance available to their former employees ages 55 to 64.
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Health plan fees are soaring and many of the nationâs early retirees are having a hard time paying the bills.
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Many small-business employees have no access to retirement plans at work.
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Privately insured, low-income workers with chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and asthma are being financially squeezed as employers shift the burden of higher health care costs to employees, a new study found.    The number of such individuals spending more than 5 percent of their income on out-of-pocket medical costs soared 48 percent to 2.2 million people from 2001 to 2003, according to a study released Thursday by the Center for Health System Change...
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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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Old age is "an illness for which there is no cure" for many employers, according to new research.
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An aging workforce, combined with the growing obesity epidemic and the high cost of medical care, could result in an epidemic of preventable illness that might cripple the region's economy, according to a study being released this morning by the New England Health Care Institute and the Boston Foundation.
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TORONTO (CP) - Downsizing strategies implemented by governments and companies alike in the 1990s have burdened Canada&#39;s health-care system with up to $14 billion a year in additional costs, a new federal study concludes.
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The UnitedHealth Group cut its 2007 revenue forecast yesterday after determining that membership in its full-service Medicare plans for older patients would probably decline âmodestlyâ this year.
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Michael Leavitt, President Bush&#39;s choice to be secretary of Health and Human Services, may have to cut billions of dollars from the government&#39;s mammoth health programs for
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Health care providers would see their reimbursement rates from the federal government go up less in coming years when they care for the elderly, poor and disabled under President Bush's budget.
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MONDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- President Bush's new budget proposal would cut $196 billion over five years from both Medicare and Medicaid -- programs that provide health care to millions of poor and elderly, federal officials announced Monday.