Health insurance costs for Iowa state employees to rise
State officials projected up to 53,789 state employees and their eligible dependents will enroll
Contract holders in the Iowa Choice HMO option would pay
Single-member premium costs would be
Paul Trombino III of Gov.
"This will keep us competitive while at the same time having a fair representation between the employer and employee share," said Lingo, who noted the state saw an
The plan also called for a slight increase in dental rates but no change for life insurance and a 2 percent administrative fee.
Gov.
During the board discussion, Fitzgerald said raising the rates and boosting employees' share of the overall cost -- even slightly -- would shift more burden to employees while saving the state money at a time when state government is offering incentives, grants and bailouts to businesses, farmers and other also hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic since it arrived in
"It seems to me that it would be best I think in this horrible year that we're going through to keep our rates the same as we did last year," Fitzgerald said. "I just think this is the wrong year to increase these rates on the employees."
Trombino said the plan added a fourth-tier level of prescription coverage that could add a
But Fitzgerald noted that employee costs were significantly lower until Statehouse Republicans revamped
In 2016, state employees paid
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