State workers’ premiums to increase
OLYMPIA – Premiums, co-payments and other health care costs will rise next year for tens of thousands of state workers and retirees, including thousands around Spokane.
“This today is an absolute travesty,” said Greg Devereux, executive director of the Washington Federation of State Employees.
Really? I think it's a travesty that the tax payers of Washington state should foot the bill for your health care.
Even with the increases, however, premiums for state employees will remain relatively low compared to what many private employers offer. Individuals in the most popular “Uniform Medical Plan,” for example, pay just $26 a month. That will rise to $41. For full family coverage, the premiums will rise from $82 a month to $123.
My husband and I pay over $500.00 for a high deductible policy, while state workers get it almost for free. And they have the audacity to complain?
My question for the day is: how are they going to like Obamacare if they think this is a travesty?
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2 comments:
The sad part of this story is that there are state workers who earn every penny of their salary and benefit packages. They are contentious, hardworking public servants. But then there are the public employee unions and the workers who don't work -- retired on the job, asleep on the job, etc. They are the ones who give public workers a bad name.
no one is going to like Obamacare...they just don't know it yet.
is this a state employee ins or a fed employee ins....cause the latter could impact us, as retired military.
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