I knew few baby boomers who are actually retired. And though they dream of golfing on a Tuesday, they are hesitant to stop working all together.
Who can blame them? The latest estimate on retiree health costs is just short of a quarter million. As if the price tag wasn't hard enough to swallow, if they're a few years shy of Medicare eligibility, pre-retirees know how hard it is just to secure health care.
We all remember when health reform tried to help with this problem through a $5 billion program for early retiree coverage. The program was supposed to provide assistance to employers until Jan. 1, 2014, but the money ran dry less than two years after the program started.
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