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A good chunk of Detroit’s debt problem is a health-costs problem. The Detroit Free Press notes that the city has $5.7 billion in unfunded retiree health-care liabilities, nearly a third of the city’s debt.
For this problem, at least, Detroit appears to have a relatively straightforward solution, one that hasn’t been available to bankrupt cities in the past. It plans to transition its 19,389 retirees into the health law’s new marketplaces, saving the city somewhere between $27.5 million and $40 million annually.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/19/detroit-wants-to-unload-19389-retirees-into-obamacares-marketplaces/
A good chunk of Detroit’s debt problem is a health-costs problem. The Detroit Free Press notes that the city has $5.7 billion in unfunded retiree health-care liabilities, nearly a third of the city’s debt.
For this problem, at least, Detroit appears to have a relatively straightforward solution, one that hasn’t been available to bankrupt cities in the past. It plans to transition its 19,389 retirees into the health law’s new marketplaces, saving the city somewhere between $27.5 million and $40 million annually.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/19/detroit-wants-to-unload-19389-retirees-into-obamacares-marketplaces/
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