The data illustrates the percentage of large US firms offering retiree health benefits to Medicare-age retirees from 2000 to 2017. The results show that 74% of firms were offering health benefits to such retirees in 2008.
Retiree health benefits
As of 2017, 95% of large United States firms offered retiree health benefits to early-age retirees. In that same year, 78% of firms with 25 to 49 employees offered their employees health benefits. Firms offering health benefits also differed based on industry. Some 73% of large firms in the state or local governments offered retiree health benefits, ironically, only 8% of health care firms offered retiree health benefits, one of the lowest figures among United States industries.
