While retiree health plans are a dying benefit in the private sector, all US states and many local governments extend health insurance coverage to their retired

While no longer common in the private sector, most public sector employers offer retiree health insurance (RHI) as a retirement benefit to their employees. Whil

"New York taxpayers spend billions of dollars a year on health insurance coverage for retired state and local government employees, many of whom are too young t

Most private sector workers with employer-provided health insurance have a strong incentive to continue working until Medicare eligibility in order to maintain

Economic theory predicts that employer-provided retiree health insurance benefits crowd-out household wealth accumulation. Nevertheless, there is little researc