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The New York Times > Washington > Judge Blocks Rule Allowing Companies to Cut Benefits When Retirees Reach Medicare Age: "The rule would have created an explicit exemption to the age discrimination law, allowing employers to reduce health benefits for retirees when they became eligible for Medicare. Under the rule, Judge Brody said, employers could have given older retirees 'health benefits that are inferior' to those given retirees younger than 65."