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  • More than 60 percent of employers are evaluating changes to the long-term medical benefits for retirees in the next 1-2 years.
  • 28 percent of employers are in the process of overhauling their retiree medical benefits.
  • 15 percent of companies have no plans to change the medical benefits they offer retirees.
  • Nearly three-quarters of employers with retirees who collect the Retiree Drug Subsidy from Medicare expect to change their retiree drug benefits.
  • 94 percent of those employers believe they will implement changes by 2013 when RDS tax advantages are eliminated; 65 percent say they will do so by 2011.
  • 43 percent of employers considering changes to their drug benefits will contract with a Part D Prescription Drug Plan as an alternative.
  • More than one-third of employers considering changes to their drug benefits will adopt a defined contribution model.

Source: Hewitt Associates

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