[fruser1]

That’s still a lot better plan than most non-goverment folks get!

[afraidfortherepublic]

WISCONSIN MEDICAL CARE/PENSION Ping

This is a recap of the policies that actually went into effect Jan. 1. It is worth it to read the whole article to separate fact from fiction.

If you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interests ping list, just FReep Mail me with your screen name and it shall be done. Thanks.

[formosa]

Hope they stop and thank the taxpayers for the fact they still have better health coverage than most of them.

[Thane_Banquo]

The changes in the state health plan require 183,000 participants to pay 10 percent of their bills for doctor visits, tests, surgeries and hospitalizations up to an annual maximum of $500 for single people and $1,000 for families.

They have to pay a co-pay like a common private sector conservative! Someone cue the "oh, the huge manatee" picture.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

"I think the reality will hit when the bill comes in the mail," said Lisa Ellinger, insurance services administrator for the state Department of Employee Trust Funds.

Freakin spare me the sob story. The "reality" is that these people have it so much better than most private company employees that it isn't funny. They all need to get fired and find real jobs.

[Huskrrrr]

Oh the humanity! Life as we know it is about to end.

[WOBBLY BOB]

they’ll just get the money from somewhere else:

“Baldwin-Woodville school district workers get $500 bonuses”

http://www.leadertelegram.com/news/front_page/article_eb4310f6-b2d3-5c14-8ef7-da2efc950d9b.html

[MrEdd]

Just like everybody else.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“”The changes in the state health plan require 183,000 participants to pay 10 percent of their bills for doctor visits, tests, surgeries and hospitalizations up to an annual maximum of $500 for single people and $1,000 for families””

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I wish I had such a Rolls Royce Plan. I have to pay up to an annual maximum of $6,000.

This was a good first step in Wisconsin, now they need to make further cuts in salary and benefits.

[DesertSapper]

Wow. I wish I had a plan that good. Heck, I could pay quadruple their new annual maximum and still have a savings over my current plan.

[Vinnie]

State workers and their families will pay more for medical care starting Jan. 1

You mean like everyone else? Horrors /s

[afraidfortherepublic]

I just received the following from the Club for Growth! ROTFLOL!

Mayor Barrett (Dem) Saved Milwaukee $25 million

Dear Friend,

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has become the official poster child for Governor Walker’s budget reforms. That’s right. The unfailingly liberal mayor took a right turn on public employee benefits, and used the Governor’s reforms to save taxpayers $25 million a year.

In fact, during the debate over collective bargaining changes, Barrett even said the law requiring public employees to contribute to their health care and pension benefits didn’t go far enough because it excluded police and firefighters. Barrett complained that they were receiving “Cadillac benefits”.

Last but not least, Mayor Barrett sought to use the Governor’s reforms in order to get around a ten year old legal settlement with city workers. “It is my hope that all public employees should be required to pay more toward their pension,” Barrett wrote in a letter to Governor Walker.

The Wisconsin Club for Growth thanks Mayor Barrett for helping Governor Walker make his case. More importantly, we thank him for saving Milwaukee taxpayers as much as $36 million in 2012 through health care benefit changes he didn’t have to negotiate with unions, as a result of Governor Walker’s reforms.

Today, the Wisconsin Club for Growth launched several billboards in Milwaukee to thank Mayor Barrett-— for using Governor Walker’s reforms! Now we need your help to keep them up.

(appeal for money follows)