Public Employees Pay Least Toward Their Health Insurance

Capitol Confidential ^ | 9/6/2010 | Tom Gantert

[MichCapCon]

Workers are paying more for their health care and state and local government employees are paying less than the private sector, according to a new national survey.

Workers are paying nearly $4,000 this year for family health care coverage, an increase of 14 percent or $482 from last year, according to the annual survey done by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust.

State and local government employees paid 9 percent of their cost for single coverage and 25 percent for family plans, both lowest among the nine employee sector categories surveyed. The highest of the others was the retail sector where employees paid 25 percent of their costs for single coverage and 34 percent for the family plan...

[Nat Turner]

Some on the Left once hoped that government employees would become a 'vanguard of labor,' setting benefit standards that would become the norm. Instead, they've become a privileged class, enjoying unsustainable rewards the rest of us can only imagine."

Truth hurts and love stinks...

[dartuser]

I pay $20 more a month for a family policy as a new government employee than I did as a defense contractor 8 months ago.

I do know the US Postal service employee pays less than me for the same government plan ...

[McGavin999]

I pay 75% of the cost of my insurance, my employer pays 25%. It used to be 50% but they had to freeze it and the employees now absorb the increases.

[olivia3boys]

I agree with you. I’m a federal employee, my husband has worked for several private companies. Every year we compare plans—sometimes the fed plan is cheaper; sometimes the private plan is cheaper.

Lately the private plan has been cheaper.

I think the fed benefits are not what they once were (but then, neither are the private ones).