Specialty Hospitals

Crumbling Retiree Health Benefits:

Who Will Bear the Burden of a Failing System?

October 26, 2005

Conference Materials:

Conference Issue Brief

Papers:

Raising the Medicare Eligibility Age with a Buy-In Option: Can One Stone Kill Three Birds? Richard W. Johnson, Ph.D., Principal Research Associate, The Urban Institute.

Presentations:

The Current State of Retiree Health Benefits. Tricia Neuman, Sc.D., Vice President; Director, Medicare Policy Project; The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

Reorganizing Retiree Health Care in Bankrupcy. Kurt T. Slawson, J.D., Assistant General Counsel, U.S.Airways.

Retiree Health Benefits in the Public Sector. Steven Kreisberg, Associate Director for Research and Collective Bargaining, AFSCME.

Raising the Medicare Eligibility Age With a Buy-In Option: Can One Stone Kill Three Birds? Richard W. Johnson, Ph.D., Principal Research Associate, and Robert D. Reischauer, President, The Urban Institute.

Can One Stone Kill Three Birds? Raising Medicare's Age of Eligibility. Robert D. Reischauer, Ph.D., President, The Urban Institute.
Crumbling Retiree Health Benefits: Political & Policy Perspectives. Dean A. Rosen, J.D., Principal, Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti.

Crumbling Retiree Health Benefits: Who Will Bear the Burden of a Failing System? John Rother, J.D., Director of Policy and Strategy, AARP.