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Officials Must Pay More for Health Coverage, Says Chicago Governor
He questioned why 84 percent of state employees paid nothing toward their health insurance and added that people needed to take ownership of their own health.
Branstad suggested that elected officials pay 20 percent of their health care costs and set an example for other state workers. He was speaking on the public television program, Iowa Press.
Earlier this week, Republican lawmakers proposed that all state workers pay $200 a month toward their health insurance. But Branstad knew there’d be a big hurdle to clear. In the meantime, Danny Homan, head of the largest state worker union, said he had ‘no intention’ of reopening the contract.
The governor didn’t give an estimate of how much the state would save if elected officials were forced to pay 20 percent, a figure that he conceded was arbitrary. However, Branstad argued many private-sector workers wished they were responsible for just 20 percent of health care costs. He said he could appreciate the issue, as he paid for health insurance after his first tenure as governor.
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