Youngstown city employee health insurance changes go into effect Friday
Council voted 7-0 on the changes Wednesday. The board of control will take the last step today when it gives its approval to the policy that takes effect Friday.
"If you want more coverage, you can pay more," said Mayor
Among the key changes recommended by a 17-member management-employee health-insurance review committee is going to a tier policy, said city Law Director
There used to be plans for employees only and for a worker's entire family.
The new policy will include two other options for family coverage -- employee/spouse and employee/children.
Those policies are less expensive than a full family plan.
For the first time, city employees will pay deductibles. The higher the deductible, the less expensive the plan.
One plan has deductibles of
With the changes, the city's health-insurance policy with
The new policy will cost, at most,
The expiring plan is
The city pays 90 percent of the health-insurance plan with employees paying the rest.
The city has about 720 employees, with 657 using the city's health-insurance plan.
Of those, 208 are single, 90 would use the employee/spouse plan, 123 would use the employee/children plan, and 263 would use the full family plan, according to data provided to the city from Anthem.
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