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Scott Wants All State Workers To Pay The Same For Insurance
February 4, 2013
Gov. Rick Scott’s proposed 2013-14 budget would require all state employees to pay the same amounts for health-insurance coverage, ending a longstanding practice of appointed officials paying less than other workers.
Similar proposals have been floated in the past, including in Scott’s 2012-13 budget recommendations.
Under Scott’s proposal, all employees would pay $50 a month for individual coverage and $180 a month for family coverage. Those amounts would be for standard health-insurance policies, not high-deductible coverage, and would be unchanged next year for rank-and-file workers.
Officials in the executive and legislative branches currently pay $8.34 a month for individual coverage and $30 a month for family coverage. House members also pay the reduced amounts, though senators recently started paying the same amounts as rank-and-file workers.
By The News Service of Florida
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13 Responses to “Scott Wants All State Workers To Pay The Same For Insurance”
dw they already have a single & single with kids. single is the same as employee rate & the other is employee + dependents & some places if you have a spouse working @ same place 1 of you gets it free or 50%.
to wm: your explanation was excellent. Very clear and to the point. I don’t know if it would be possible but As to premium amounts, I would like to see a closer spread for single, single parent small family, larger family and so forth.
REGARDING:
“I wish everyone was required to take a course in how insurance works…”
Agreed, but then that would go against the Readin, ‘Ritin’, ‘Rithmatic concept of only teaching the basics for 12 to 14 years. Actually, people could practice reading policies to understand how they are figured and arithmetic to understand what it means and how they pay and are paid, so it would be okay.
The truth is that there are many things we all need to know in order to vote intelligently but either weren’t taught or weren’t paying attention when the teacher was going over it or got confused or forgot. (Miniskirts and low cut dresses were distracting.)
Education is a lifelong process and sometimes people actually have to face life to realize how an education can help them in specific ways.
David for informed voters
I will not say this is always true but, most of the time it is the more people that works in a company the cheaper it is. County employees ins. is higher than state ,that is why I am on my husbands ins., they also have higher deductibles. State& federal have more employees than city or county. I don’t have a problem with the guys going over seas to fight for us to have cheaper ins., give it to them, that’s one of the perks. The point is if you want cheap ins. or low copays,deductibles get another job, now I must sound like all the whiners.This what they sound like. Go cut you a slice of cheese to go with that whine you got & suck it up.
Elected officials (state and federal) have been getting a free ride on insurance for years while the rest of pay alot. Time for a change. Maybe if they had to pay as much as everyone else it would help lower some insurance rates, although I doubt it.
Does that also mean part-time employees will only have to pay $180 instead of the $300-$400 they have to pay per month?
Does that mean the Select-Exempt employees, who pay $3.84 for insurance, will also lose their lump sum annual leave that they recieve every year on their annivaerdary day?
I have always wondered why teachersand all other school district employees, who are considered state employees for retirement purposes, are not on the state insurance plan. It sure would be a lot less expensive for them.
I wish everyone was required to take a course in how insurance works…
The premiums for group coverage are based in large part upon the claim history of that group (of people). More money going out in claims means higher premiums required to cover those claims.
When you buy insurance of any kind — your premiums are not just paying your own claims — they are paying the claims of others as well. So, you can’t expect that having “never had a claim” means you are entitled to get that money back. It’s the law of large numbers. You are paying to transfer the risk of having a catastrophic claim to another party — the insurance company.
You can’t expect something for little to nothing…
Obamacare has only made it worse — premiums are going up as a result. If you voted for him expecting to get “free stuff” — you are a fool. Nothing is free — those who are productive, and not on the government hand-out system will be paying increased premiums so the un- and underproductive can get something for “free”.
As I read this news clip I am lead to believe they are speaking about ALL state employees , even elected ones.
I was always glad to pay the 180.00 for family, although we have had one dr. office continue to tell us since your on medicaid it will not cover this procedure. I was continuously repeating myself we were not medicaid, we never did prove to them we were not on medicaid, so apparently to them state ins. is medicaid & we never got that procedure, because I was not having anything done when I was gonna have to pay when it should be covered. To us, maybe I don’t understand your comment but the state ins. is one of the main reasons to not leave state employment, the real world prices are a joke, one of my brothers ins. for his family is 800.00 a month, because he made bad choices in life, he got himself a felony & can’t get a state , but he does support his family & makes really good money.
I pay 600.00 a month for bc/bs family coverage. Why cant e everybody pay the lower amount? That wY everybody can afford coverage and everybody would have coverage. Wouldn’t this help everybody? Like the the people, the hospitals and the government?
I just wish we ALL could pay the same. Single coverage for BC/BS is about $97 every two weeks and family is just a joke. All of the state or government employees seem to get up set when their’s go up, but try the real world prices!!!! Just saying.
Will this apply to the Governor & State Legislators?
Scott is a huge hypocrite on this issue, or has been, in the past.