Kodak seeks to end health coverage for Medicare-eligible retirees

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Mar 1 2012

The Associated Press/Washington Post: Troubled Kodak Moves To Drop Health Coverage For Medicare-Eligible, Post 1991-Retirees
Eastman Kodak Co., looking to whittle expenses as it reorganizes under bankruptcy protection, wants to end health care benefits for about 16,000 retirees who are over age 65 and thus eligible for Medicare (2/28).

This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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