Thursday, May 5, 2011

Retiree Health Insurance

Retiree Health Insurance

Roundup: Vt. universal care bill advances; Duluth, Minn., seeking to change retiree health benefits; Texas steps back ...
Dr. James Mongan, a physician with a specialty in politics who for decades helped shape the health care debate in Washington, D.C., and the Commonwealth, and who formerly served as president of Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare, died in MGH yesterday.[...]
4-1 vote grants elected officials health insurance

The Burke County Board of Commissioners at its regular meeting Tuesday night diverged from its usual consensus on decision items as Commissioner Maynard Taylor argued against adding a provision of county health insurance to county elected department heads.[...]

Retiree health insurance: Can Duluth change the rules?
Retiree health insurance changed by city to save money. Retirees sue. Minnesota Supreme Court to rule over retiree health insurance changes.[...]
Jindal insurance privatization plan gets scrutiny
Gov. Bobby Jindal's top financial adviser on Tuesday defended the administration's proposal to hire a private company to run a state worker and retiree health insurance program, rebutting complaints the privatization would boost health care costs to generate short-term cash for the budget.[...]
Insurance hearing fuels fire over issue

  SPRINGFIELD -- A long and sometimes contentious legislative hearing over a tentative change in state employee and retiree health care insurance served only to add more controversy to the issue. read more[...]

La. gov insurance privatization plan gets scrutiny

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's top financial adviser on Tuesday defended the administration's proposal to hire a private company to run a state worker and retiree health insurance program, rebutting complaints the privatization would boost health care costs to generate short-term cash for the budget.[...]

Reconsidering retiree insurance policy
Clamoring from county employees and constitutional officers has put the Baker County Commission's policy of phasing out retiree health insurance contributions back on the table for discussion. All but one of the commissioners agreed during the board's regular meeting April 18 to revisit their 4-1 decision on March 21 to eliminate subsidized health coverage for existing employees who retire after.[...]
NC State Health Plan compromise may be near
House and Senate Republicans disagreed Wednesday over the spending needed to work out an agreement on state employee, teacher and retiree health insurance for the next two years to meet a deadline and avoid another veto by Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue.[...]

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