Pooling Bill Passes Committee with Bipartisan Support
by Christine Stuart | March 28, 2008 5:36 PM
Posted to Health Care
On Friday evening the Appropriations Committee passed Majority Leader Chris Donovan’s bill which allows municipalities, nonprofits, and small businesses to join the state employees health insurance plan.
Proponents say the state employees health insurance plan creates a large pool of lives, which will increase bargaining power and lower costs for most cities and towns. Click here to read more about the plan and see how much it would save more than a handful of municipalities.
The bill passed 39-14.
Comments (1)
Posted by: Gary Doyens | March 31, 2008 10:24 AM
Why is New Haven, which hasn't put its employee health insurance plan out for bid in anybody's memory, not signing on to this? DeStefano claims his bid plan will save the city $1.5 million this year which we could have been saving in previous years too and didn't. The projections of this plan will save $5 - $8 million. Perhaps the mayor needs to re-learn the "greater than" "less than" concept all over again.