Rx for insurance
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
By Chris Fitzsimon
Reforms of state health plan make financial sense
It covers 590,000 people. It has cost taxpayers $750 million more in the past four years. And it still doesn’t provide affordable family medical care for North Carolina’s workers. The state health insurance plan is broken, and citizens should demand that lawmakers follow through and fix it.
North Carolina may be first in flight, but it’s in the rear when it comes to health insurance for state employees and their families. What’s wrong? The plan’s expensive, it’s out of date and it puts the state at a competitive disadvantage when luring top workers. Those things should change — without delay.
Here’s the problem. Even though managed care dominates in the private sector, North Carolina has the only state employee health insurance in the country that offers no choice beyond the traditional fee-for-service indemnity plan. (more…)
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