Mr. Taveras announced that retirees, current safety officials and current municipal workers agreed to a 10-year suspension of cost-of-living increases for most pensions — and limitations thereafter — and the migration of their health care plans onto Medicare.
Some shareholder advocates worry that other companies, too, will rush new options plans onto their books, in case the rule goes into effect by the end of the year.
The Credit Suisse analysts who conducted the study, David Zion and Bill Carcache, prepared it to show investors how successful, or not, companies had been in shifting the cost of their retiree health plans onto other payers.
As municipalities and private companies gain more knowledge about how the Affordable Care Act works, they will have an incentive to shift some of their employees and retirees from their existing plans onto the exchanges, where they may be eligible for federal subsidies.
When you look closely at the Affordable Care Act you find that, in many cases, firms will be able to shift most of the cost of the insurance plans onto their employees, leaving the company itself with just modest contributions to make.
Health market environment effects include both the impacts of insurance and practitioner regulations as well as spillover effects from managed care plans onto all market constituents.
