If you retire from your current employer, and remary ten years after you retire, is your new spouse going to be covered by your employer’s health care plan?

At last nights council meeting, during a discussion about the possibility of affording the police chief increased health care benefits if he retires before July 1st, I learned that this is exactly the benefit that the non-union employees of the City of Rochester have.

Once retired, should the employee remarry at some point in the future, the new spouse will be afforded health care coverage in the same manner in which the employee is provided health care coverage. Unbelievable.

I find this benefit to be ridiculously excessive and extraordinary. I have no problem with retirement benefits continuing to cover an existing spouse after the employee retires, but I think that covering any future spouse is absolute squandering of the public tax dollars. Even if the current ever rising health care costs (and the associated burden on the employer) were not an issue, this benefit is very, very liberal and excessive.

What do you think? Your comments are welcome and appreciated.

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