by BCARE | Oct 27, 2015 | Financial News, Health Insurance
From the Bakersfield Californian BY THEO DOUGLAS – SUNDAY, OCT 25, 2015 The city of Bakersfield is switching healthcare plans after learning one of its two providers would have raised the cost of employee coverage as much as 21 percent in 2016, the third year...
by BCARE | Feb 9, 2014 | Financial News, Pensions
(Notice from the RPEA – Retired Public Employees’ Association) The Sacramento Bee released an article recently announcing the launch of a public pension database by a government reform group associated with Marcia Fritz, one of the primary opponents of...
by BCARE | Sep 9, 2013 | Financial News
(Excerpted from Bloomberg, please read full article here.) By Alex Nussbaum – Sep 9, 2013 America’s biggest employers, from GE to IBM, are increasingly moving retirees to insurance exchanges where they select their own health plans, an historic shift that could...
by BCARE | Aug 18, 2013 | Financial News
From The Bakersfield Californian July 30,2013 (Originally from The Sacramento Bee) Stockton is not Detroit. Both cities have filed for bankruptcy protection, but the source of their woes could not be more different. Stockton overreached during the housing boom of the...