It is paid by private and public employers for health insurance.

Their members are employed by federal, public and private employers.

Under current practice, most public employers do not report such costs until they pay for the promised benefits, often many years after employees have retired.

Many public employers have never looked under the water.

All employers, large, small, public and private, are eligible to be nominated.

But no such limit would apply to public employers, the Administration officials said.

But, by law, the panel must also consider "the financial ability of the public employer to pay."

The article does not identify the 2,763 private and public employers the authors examined.

There is a a lot of interest by both public and private employers.

He states that even if the bill is passed, public employers would still have vastly more rights than those who work in the private sector.