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Hey Scal104....let's talk about Scottie's world......Moody's just announced that an unfunded health care plan for retirees should be at least 70% funded.......in Warwick our unfunded healthcare obligation is funded 0% percent.....you quote Fidelity about a wellness program incentive that supposedly is being implemented by major corporations but you failed to mention that companies such as Veriizon, IBM , Xerox, 3M have frozen their defined pension program for new employees and have cut benefits for some existing employees. You didn't mention that Fidelity gives their employees a 7 % match for their wages but in Warwick municipal workers get an 11% match, police are approaching a 30% match and fireman a 22 % one. No even close to what Warwick city workers get. Once employees retire from corporation with a 401k there is no COLA and the taxpayers aren't there to make up the difference when the stock market crashes. Lifetime healthcare doesn't exist in private industry today. They got rid of that years ago because it would cripple their business going forward but in Scottie's world that doesn't matter.

You talk about city workers haven't seen a raise in 3 yrs but yet their insurance cost has gone up......taxpayers in Warwick who work in private industry haven't seen one for years. It's called the real world.

In Scottie's world unfunded obligations are $620 million and Scottie has no plan to address it.