North Charleston leaders fighting to keep employee health insurance benefit : postandcourier

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North Charleston leaders fighting to keep employee health insurance benefit

North Charleston leaders fighting to keep employee health insurance benefit

North Charleston city employees don't have to contribute a dime to their health insurance premiums, a perk that's getting harder for the city to offer.North Charleston's rising health insurance costs Fiscal year Health Insurance Cost Total Budget Percent 2012 $12.1 million $95 million 13 percent 2013 $13.3 million $95 million 14 percent 2014 $13.9 million $99.9 million 14 percent 2015 $14.8 million $105.6 million 14 percent 2016 $16.7 million $110.4 million 15 percentCity leaders, including Mayor Keith Summey, said they hope to keep the benefit, but the cost continues to rise.In the 2012 fiscal year, the city spent $12.1 million on employee health insurance, but in the 2016 fiscal year, which ended on June 30, that cost had jumped to $16.7 million for the city's more than 1,100 employees.


moreover from pe

Most Inland residents now have health insurance

Most Inland residents now have health insurance

Most Inland residents now have health insurance Share Pin It More Galleries Riverside and San Bernardino counties both had more than 90 percent of their populations with some kind of health insurance in 2015, according to the recently released American Community Survey from the U.S. Census Bureau., NICK AGRO/ ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER/ SCNG Related article » Inland Health Insurance 2015* San Bernardino County Insured: 1.8 million or 91 percent Uninsured: 187,259 or 9 percent Riverside County Insured: 2.1 million or 90.2 percent Uninsured: 229,295 or 9.8 percent United States Insured: 286.6 million or 90.6 percent Uninsured: 29.7 million or 9.4 percent California Insured: 38.6 million or 91.4 percent Uninsured: 3.3 million or 8.6 percent *Noninstitutional population – excludes persons residing in institutions.Source: American Community Survey, U.S. Census BureauMore than 90 percent of the populations for both Riverside and San Bernardino counties had some kind of health insurance in 2015, according to the recently released American Community Survey from the U.S. Census Bureau.


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Striking nurses to lose health insurance coverage Oct. 1

Striking nurses to lose health insurance coverage Oct. 1

"I'm gonna help you carry him, he's so cute!"said Hannah Tyman, left, as she holds Eli, eight months, the baby of her colleague, Lorraine Woidylla, right, as nurses continue to strike outside United Hospital in St. Paul on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016.They are both nurses in the Intensive Care Unit at United.


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Idaho health insurance exchange offering more plans, higher premiums in 2017

Idaho health insurance exchange offering more plans, higher premiums in 2017

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Government employees can expect no increase in health insurance rate

Government employees can expect no increase in health insurance rate

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