[Zakeet]

More than 60 percent of companies [are] planning changes to retiree coverage, according to Aon Hewitt

[Travis McGee]

[Balding_Eagle]

All seems to be going according to Obama’s plan.

[3Fingas]

Employers are also cutting hours so that jobs are being reclassified as part-time.

[sickoflibs]

RE V:”More than 40 percent of employers have eliminated their traditional group health coverage for retirees over the age of 65 in favor of giving these former employees a defined amount of money for them to buy their coverage on the individual Medicare plan market, according to a new survey of more than 540 companies by employee benefits consulting firm Aon Hewitt (AON). “

Wasnt this the magical Ryan plan for all of Medicare?
Just hand you a coupon and tell you good luck on finding health care?

Except Ryan's brainstorm would have started in 10 years from passage and exempted everyone over the age of 55 at time of passage, really smart, big winners and big losers, tough luck suckers..

ahhhh, If Ryan proposes then it must be good as he is budget wizard boy wonder.

but if Obama-care does it then its bad, bad, bad,.

[johncatl]

The Headline is misleading. It should say that they are shifting the cost to us,not the government.

If the "government" is responsible, then the burden should be on the Federal, state and municipal workers to pay

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Wake up, America.....sign & endorse the Lee/Cruz defund petition today!!!

(www;dontfundobamacare.com)

[Graybeard58]

I’m a retiree with medicare and my former private employer became my secondary insurer when I became 65 years old. Just wondering what’s going to happen to my plan when zerocare kicks in.

My wife and two minor children are not covered by medicare and my former employer is their primary provider.

[anoldafvet]

Affordable Care Act = Do As I Say Not As I Do Act

[catnipman]

So, if I correctly understand this VERY wordy article which is chock-a-block full of deliberate, nearly incomprehensible “HumanResourceSpeak”, a majority of companies are simply going to eliminate retiree medical benefits by dumping their former employees onto the Obamacare health care “exchanges”?

[ModelBreaker]

“(shifting cost to government)”

No. Shifting cost to taxpayers.

[cherry]

I don’t have any retirement health care coverage so LUCKILY this doesn’t affect me.....*sigh*