State Pensions Track: Financing Public Retiree

Health Care

NCSL 2010 Legislative Summit: Wednesday, July 28

Time: 01:12:25

Moderator
Senator Bill Heath, Georgia

Speakers
Elizabeth Kellar, president, Center for State and Local Government Excellence and deputy executive director, International City/County Management Association
Michael Burnside, executive director, Kentucky Retirement System
Speaker Teri Norelli, New Hampshire

Overview

The Government Accountability Office says that state governments’ fiscal condition will decline over the next half-century— through 2060— largely because of the cost of health care. Retiree health care is a large component of the issue. Hear from the experts on options and enactments designed to make health care costs more manageable.