One is not eligible for Medicare until they are 65 years old. If the worker was “put out to pasture” at 55 with a gold watch and a party (in favor of a 23 yo), what do you expect them to do for healthcare in the intervening ten years, brian?[/quote]
Get another job, like everyone else? Or pay premiums out of pocket? Or don’t get sick. Or get medical in Mexico. Like everyone else.[/quote]
Lots of retirees are currently doing one or more of those things, brian. The point I was trying to make is that MANY CA gov’t workers were “retired” involuntarily. Their positions were actually riffed in budget cuts or a new appointing authority came in with their own people surrounding them and thus the old mgrs and administrators of the former regime were replaced. This did NOT happen with line workers such as myself who were protected by civil service rules. But this happened to MANY at-will public workers who are undoubtedly now receiving the highest pensions.
