http://slate.msn.com/id/2086511/
Ouch: GM has 2.5 retirees for each active U.S. employee; GM and Ford combined paid $7.8 billion in health care costs last year (on profits of $1.7bn and -$1bn). (They want the U.S. government to pay some of their health-care costs—or, as this article puts it, a European style social-welfare state.)