HD33 - Health Care Coverage Alternatives for School Employees
Executive Summary: Over the past several years, health care costs have increased at an alarming rate. For teachers and other school employees who are employed by individual school divisions and thus do not have access to the health insurance plans offered to state employees that means money right off the top of what is available locally for their salaries and other benefits. Through their individual school division, they are provided a wide range of health care coverage by a multitude of companies, and contribution by local school divisions for such coverage ranges from no contribution at all to payment in full of the premiums for individual and family coverage. Growing concern among school employees and local school boards over these escalating health care costs and the wide disparities in coverages offered by the boards led the Virginia Education Association to request that the General Assembly pass a resolution calling for a study of health care alternatives for school employees in Virginia so that comprehensive and uniform health care programs with reasonable rates could be considered. A copy of the resolution appears as Appendix 1 to this report. |
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