What Obamacare Means for Corporate Retiree Insurance Coverage

The news that Time Warner and IBM are changing retiree health insurance benefits has some claiming the moves are proof that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is drastically eroding the employer-based health insurance system it promised to preserve and increasing costs for retired corporate workers in the process, say critics. In truth, corporate America was already looking for ways to trim health insurance costs, particularly for retirees, long before Obamacare came along. The benefit decisions anno...