[ninenot]

Figures are approximate, from memory:

Average per-capita annual health premium, Statewide, private industry: $6,000.00

Average per-capita annual health premium, State of Wisconsin employees: $7,200.00

They get a Mercedes plan, folks. Doyle will "offset" with layoffs, but it's years 3, 4, and 5 which will be painful; health rates should average a gain of at LEAST 10%/year in those years.

[Chummy]

..just the very notion of extending coverage willy-nilly, when it could be just some buddy who rooms with a state employee for a few months, when it could be a temporary arrangement between individuals, this is just bad policy.

It certainly is not the way to extend health coverage to more citizens, as the Gov has mentioned.

It's a quick way to further erode the family as the foundation of our society, the one that doesn't necessarily need that village.