Contact the State Legislature Today about funding for Higher Education and to voice your opposition to the Dillon Healthcare Plan!.
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Your Health Benefits are in Jeopardy
House Speaker Andy Dillon has introduced H.B. 5345 that would put all active and retired public employees - including all K-12, higher education and municipal employees - into a state designed health insurance plan. The proposal takes away our collective bargaining rights, will probably lower our benefits in order to meet the savings being claimed, and creates a new Lansing bureaucracy. Please contact your legislators today asking them to oppose H.B.5345.
Here are some details for H.B. 5345:
• It creates a mandatory health plan housed in the Department of Management and Budget, governed by a state Health Benefits Board and administered by the Office of State Employer;
• It mandates all state, city, village, township, and county governments, agencies, school districts, public school academies, ISDs, community colleges, and public universities as well as all public retirement systems, to participate in employee health care plans from the state benefits plan;
• It severely restricts collective bargaining between public employers and employees to choosing from a set menu of plans and plan designs approved by the Health Benefits Board;
• It requires that all school districts, public school academies, ISDs, community colleges, public universities, and local governments are financially liable for any budget shortfalls in the government-run fund;
• It extends a public health plan purchase option to the private sector;
• Allows school districts, public school academies, ISDs, community colleges, public universities, and local governments to opt-out of the program if they pay for an actuarial study proving that the plan they offer is more than 5% less expensive than the government-run plan (must apply for approval at least 9 months prior to expiration of current contract);
• Does not require or expand employee health care coverage;
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