These government employee unions need busted. They can suffer like the rest of us.
Bad days coming for California.
Why does the State still offer this benefit?
Most every company that ever offered it discontinued the benefit a decade ago.
Let retiree’s pay for their own health insurance.
Wow... San Francisco got one right!
The state Legislature is not considering changing those benefits.
Why the heck not?
“Maybe the city was too generous. Maybe it was irresponsible. Maybe it was just unlucky.
Either way, Bakersfield owes its employees $205 million more than it has in savings. The city has 30 years to come up with the money, and the taxpayers of Bakersfield are on the hook.”
http://www.bakersfield.com/102/story/697514.html
Gosh, i hope our luck changes. Effin nitwits
This and CalPERS... Would you buy any Munis from this state? (Note not a offer to buy/sell or give advice....)
I think I’m going to gag ~ California’s State Controller John Chiang has actually proposed supporting budget outrages by ripping off the retiree’s medical benefits package.
My post on another thread which is pertinent to this one...
Obama is setting precedent and we should take that ball and run with it. According to him and the rest of the socialists, it is perfectly okay to pick one segment of society who is doing better than the rest and tax them to death.
So which segment of society do you see getting a larger and larger piece of the pie? GOVERNMENT WORKERS. They make more than their private sector counterparts and they have much better benefits and job security. Excluding the Post Office, there are 2,000,000 federal workers. Tax them an extra $1,000 a year and we’re up $2,000,000,000. Tax them $10,000 for that cushy government job and we’re up $20,000,000,000. Do this to all state, county, and city workers and we’ll be rolling in dough because pretty soon no one will want a government job and government will shrink by necessity.
I don't know what a "CSU" is. My pension is $1235 a month and from that I pay $364 per month premium for health insurance for my wife and me.
It has a $600 deductable and then it's 80/20 to a max out of pocket of $1,000 each. All office visits are paid 100% by me and they do not count toward the deductable.
My prescriptions have a $5.00 co pay for generics and $15.00 & up for name brands, unless the name brand is "too expensive" and then the insurer tells me to have the doc prescribe something else or pay all of it myself.
But I'm only a retired U.A.W. member.