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The Tab for Public Employee Retiree Health Care Benefits Is Spiraling Out of Control
Cable News Network 
May 13, 2009
Excerpt: States pay the costs of retiree health care, which range from full coverage for life to more modest benefits, out of their annual budgets. And the tab has been spiraling out of control. In 2008, employer health insurance premiums increased by 5%, or twice the rate of inflation. 'Governments have piled up huge unfunded health care liabilities, the dimensions of which are just now being realized,' writes Lance Weiss in a report released in 2006 by Deloitte titled 'Paying for Tomorrow.' 'Estimates of unfunded liabilities associated with retiree health benefit plans represent a fiscal crisis for many states and municipalities.'
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