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at a budget that’s approximately $1.5 million or more like $10 million, fifteen percent is about 1.5 million, so that gives you an idea of these initiatives. THE MODERATOR: Okay – Tinkham Reporting (508) 759-9162 1- 114 MS. HARPER: Mr. Moderator, I’d just like to add that those programs are known as rate saver programs. Those programs are available now. Employees have the option of selecting those programs. Now, what we can’t do without collective bargaining, coming to agreement with all seven municipal plus the school unions, is to eliminate the more conventional options. So, those programs priced at 15 percent below the other programs are available as of this year. So, if you know an employee or you work with an employee, you can certainly share that with them, that that opportunity is available as of this year. THE MODERATOR: Okay. Ms. Johnson. MS. JOHNSON: Two questions. I’m Patricia Johnson, Precinct 5. One question is some of the plans’ percentage contribution by the employee going to change? Or, on with your negotiations with the unions, are you considering going into the state health care program which had several articles in the Globe about the savings to communities if all our employees or the Town would negotiate with the unions to go into the state program? And one other question. There have also been some articles:
do we have any of these programs, health care programs that would be classified as the Cadillac programs? MR. WHRITENOUR: As a what? Tinkham Reporting (508) 759-9162 1- 115 MS. JOHNSON: A Cadillac healthcare insurance. Cadillac, meaning it’s way above the average. MR. WHRITENOUR: Okay, okay, no, I understand that question. You mentioned, first, I’d like to get to kind of like the meat of your question first, which is she raised an issue, there’s a state program out there, and I’m sure everyone’s read a lot about, it’s the health insurance that’s offered through the Group Insurance Commission, and this is the health insurance that’s provided to state employees. And, quite honestly, a lot of our work with the Cape Cod Municipal Health Group has really been geared towards coming up with legitimate options to that program. The program is a little bit cheaper than the program we have now, but the benefits are nowhere near the programs that we currently enjoy, and a perfect example of that is – that hurts kind of the Cape Cod environment, there’s no Blue Cross Blue Shield, or anything like that available. We’re also out of network down here for the state program, so it doesn’t work as good here as it would up in Boston. But the fact is that what that Group Insurance Commission initiative has demonstrated for us here on Cape Cod is that the status quo of the old programs with the old
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