Sentence examples for retiree plan from inspiring English sources

Others have chronic or debilitating health problems that would require expensive supplemental coverage — currently provided by the retiree plan — even with the Medicare benefit.

Those look like staggering amounts until one understands that they don't require any immediate cash payments and that the added taxes will be paid out slowly — over perhaps 30, 40 or more years, depending on a company's retiree plan.

About 90 percent of beneficiaries in the traditional Medicare program have supplemental coverage through Medigap policies, employers' retiree plans or Medicaid for low-income people.

The Gore plan is voluntary; the elderly are free to get their prescription drug coverage through retiree plans, through H.M.O.'s, through Medicare or to waive coverage altogether.

Many of these beneficiaries are retirees who get drug coverage through former employers, and "retiree plans usually provide much more generous coverage" than Mr. Clinton has proposed, the budget office said.

About 12 million Americans older than 65 have drug coverage through employer retiree plans, 4 million are covered by Medicaid programs for low-income people, 560,000 have Medigap policies and 12 million more have no drug insurance.

The research firm pointed out that the benefits are "extremely generous,"–GM being no exception and that retiree plans are very different from most active ones.

While hospital care does carry significant copays and deductibles, the vast majority of beneficiaries (about 88percentt of fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries) have supplemental coverage of some kind (mainly Medigap, retiree plans, or Medicaid) to cover hospital copayments.

Which is not to say that there aren't significant problems, as Brown admits, from over-committed/under-funded public employee retiree plans and inadequate maintenance of public infrastructure to an historic drought exacerbated by climate change.

Other G.M. stakeholders, including a trust that pays health care costs for union retirees, plan to participate in the offering.

Products to help retirees plan for and manage that spending could generate an estimated $80 billion in revenue and $12 billion in profits for health insurers and other financial institutions by 2014.