{"id":106,"date":"2008-07-15T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T18:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2008-07-16T19:05:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T23:05:22","slug":"gm-eliminates-retiree-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/gm-eliminates-retiree-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"GM Eliminates Retiree Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of General Motors&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.gm.com\/servlet\/GatewayServlet?target=http:\/\/image.emerald.gm.com\/gmnews\/viewmonthlyreleasedetail.do?domain=74&#038;docid=47123\">press release from this morning<\/a> (this link may only work in IE), it has been announced that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><cite>&#8230;health care coverage for U.S. salaried retirees over 65 will be eliminated, effective January 1, 2009. Affected retirees and surviving spouses will receive a pension increase from GM&#8217;s over funded U.S. salaried plan to help offset costs of Medicare and supplemental coverage.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is awful. I can only hope that it helps push through some manner of base level (at least) socialized health care in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and (as of right now) the stock is up almost 6%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of General Motors&#8217; press release from this morning (this link may only work in IE), it has been announced that: &#8230;health care coverage&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/gm-eliminates-retiree-healthcare\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GM Eliminates Retiree Healthcare<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finances","category-politics","category-work","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}