Retiree Health Benefits

1. Retiree Health Benefits • Sample comprised of 321 randomly selected HR professionals. • Analyzing 321 of 2993 emails sent, 2691 emails were received (response rate = 12%). • Survey fielded January 3 – January 9, 2006; presentation generated on January 11, 2006. • Margin of error is +/- 5.0%

2. Do you currently offer retiree health benefits? n=321

3. Do you currently offer retiree health benefits?

4. Do you coordinate the retiree health benefits with Medicare eligibility, i.e. offer Medicare as the primary payer and the employer-sponsored plan as supplementary or secondary coverage? n=82

5. Do you coordinate the retiree health benefits with Medicare eligibility, i.e. offer Medicare as the primary payer and the employer-sponsored plan as supplementary or secondary coverage?

6. If the law were changed to prohibit the coordination of an employer's health care plan with Medicare, would your employer-sponsored plan continue to provide retiree health care coverage? n=58

7. If the law were changed to prohibit the coordination of an employer's health care plan with Medicare, would your employer-sponsored plan continue to provide retiree health care coverage?

8. Which of the four options under the Medicare Modernization Act do you plan to offer? (Check all that apply) n=82 Percentage will not add to 100% as multiple responses were allowed

9. Which of the four options under the Medicare Modernization Act do you plan to offer? (Check all that apply)