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The problem with retirees is once you're a retiree, you're no longer a member of a collective bargain agreement.

Matt Giacobbe

When it comes to the retiree healthcare crisis, public sector employers are facing many of the same challenges that private companies are encountering with the added complexity of the new GASB 45 requirements. SHPS realized that its CDRHP product, which has been well-received by many large, private employers, was a very good solution for public sector employers as well.

Rishabh Mehrotra

As someone involved with retiree groups, it's nice to have an answer when someone's got a question.

Paul Aviews

Those with retiree health benefits should ask their former employer or union for advice.

Patricia Richards

He didn't make a very good retiree. He always had a Type-A personality.

Rose Fong

[Right now] you have different choices for different classes of people. No one's challenging that. The law ... just deals with uniformity for retiree benefits, not uniformity among [current employees].

Matt Giacobbe

We're in a society where an awful lot of the institutions we have were built for a different era, an era where we had 16 workers for every retiree.

Stephen Friedman

These savings are a clear positive, but retiree liability cuts are likely to see some almost immediate offsets, from ongoing health care inflation, possible Delphi liability assumption and falling long-term rates.

Robert Barry

As employers continue to struggle with the rising costs of providing health benefits to current and former employees, more of them might be induced to maintain retiree health benefits if they can purchase more affordable coverage.

Cathy Schoen

There are obviously some issues to face. This is not finished. I will be watching the poverty income issue. I'm concerned about the retiree issue. We've just got a lot of work to do.

Sen. Greg Bell

Retiree medical expenses are the big wild card. Most people will probably spend a lot more on medical expenses when they retire.

Lori Lucas

People typically take a cue from their parents' generation ? which had pension plans and retiree health programs. And they know they're making more money than their parents did.

Jack Vanderhei

There are so many factors driving employers away from retiree health benefits ? ... escalating health costs, demographics; all sorts of things influence employers' decisions.

Laurie Mccann

I am proud of the bipartisan process that produced this legislation. Corporate responsibility is an investor and retiree issue. It is not a partisan issue, and those who would attempt to make it so do a real disservice to all of us.

Michael Oxley

The board instructed us to contact the various interested parties comprised of the labor organizations, county retiree organizations and others and solicit from them ideas as to what can be done to ensure the viability of these ancillary benefits.

Brian White

You're absolutely right. Contracts can vary. Rates can vary. Pays can vary. ... Only in the area of retiree health benefits has the Legislature spoken.

Matt Giacobbe