Changes coming to Wisconsin state employee health insurance

[lutefisk]

The consultants hired by by the Wisconsin Group Insurance Board made their recommendations today. It looks like costs will be much higher for state employees in 2016 and for 2017 and beyond it looks quite possible the state will drop all HMOs and begin self-insuring (WalkerCare...shudder).

A few examples of recommendations for 2016 include, doubling annual out-of-pocket max from $1000 to $2000 annually, introducing a $500 deductible, implementing a new co-pay scheme, increasing the cost of prescription drugs to as much as $200 per refill for non-generics. There is much more in the report:

LINK to consultants report

[Half-Century Man]

1. I swear these fuckwits are trying implode the government.

At any level. At all levels.
To wreck the concept of government so badly, mankind will abandon it for a free for all.

[Scuba]

2. That's just your opinion. Oh wait, no it's not ...

This Republican agrees with you. So do I.

“We are now literally dismantling the state government, and people need to think long and hard about what they want for a future in our state,”

http://www.middlewisconsin.org/quotations-from-republican-senator-dale-schultz/

[lutefisk]

3. Great quote

Spoken with the wisdom completely lacking in the short-sighted Republicans controlling this state.

[midnight]

5. I second that. Great quote...

[lutefisk]

6. I say we run Dale Schultz against Walker in the next recall

Democrats would be, like, "right about now, looks like FDR to me", and a good number of Republicans would be, like, "hey, I have grandchildren, and he's a Republican, right?". It would be Schultz 65%, Walker 35%

Dale for Governor 2016

[midnight]

7. Dale Shultz let the Republicans have it.... I wonder if he would sign up as an independent?

[Still In Wisconsin]

8. I'd vote for him.

I think Dale Schultz is a good, decent person.

[Pharaoh]

4. The nightmare just keeps getting worse!

This is what walker will do to the country if the cock brothers have their way.......