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All Over the Map

Newly updated to include breast cancer, prostate cancer, and spine procedures, this CHCF-sponsored research shows that practice patterns vary dramatically from place to place.

Medi-Cal Transforms

Medi-Cal is the main source of health insurance for one in five Californians. An updated report gives an overview of the program's key features, describes how the program is evolving, and examines the challenges ahead.

Obama Care in the Second Term

CHCF is a long-time sponsor of the UC Irvine Forecast Conference. A webcast of this year's conference on health policy in President Obama's second term is now available.

Health Care Reform

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Report: Employers Rethinking Health Coverage for Retirees

More than 40% of employers are contemplating ending group health plans for retirees who do not yet qualify for Medicare because of the federal health reform law, according to a report by Towers Watson and the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists. The report notes that the employers intend to encourage pre-Medicare retirees to purchase coverage through the state-based health insurance exchanges that launch in 2014.

Reader Comments:
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  • 06/21/2011
  • David Waters

If this is part of your employee package and you have worked the years to qualify for your employee health care at retirement then they should still have to pick it up. But if they want to change it for all new employees then thats a different issue. Now that baby boomers are coming to the age of retirement it not ok to take it away from them because companies and states and goverment did not set aside the money they have paid in all these years.



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