UnitedHealth Group Now Offers Low-Cost Medicare Supplement Plans in Kansas through the AARP Health Care Options Program (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
FORT WASHINGTON, Penn.----July 20, 2006--The AARP Health Care Options Program today announced it now has available two new reduced-premium Medicare supplement plans for AARP members in Kansas.

Costs for concern:Retiree health care becomes contentious issue (Gloucester Daily Times)
Leroy McKnight retired in 2000 as an hourly employee and union officer after more than three decades with General Motors Corp., thinking his retiree health care needs were covered. Now, he's taking stock trading classes at a local college, just in case.

Retiree health care a contentious issue (Orange County Register)
As companies struggle to contain expenses, benefits are being cut for a growing number of pensioners.