Bloggers, curse them for their interloping, later find a last minute amendment by Cullerton and others (Steans?) to force a full payment on the healthcare option, and NO guarantee that healthcare from the state (TRIP) will be provided at all. The blasted bloggers also suggest that my payment for healthcare from the state may come to $12,000 a year. That is, IF healthcare even exists after the passage of SB2404.
Come again? I realize, that first selection would be the same as those who chose not to have healthcare and keep their compound COLA’s (and purchase their own healthcare at full price). People would be selecting to freeze their pension COLA’s for two staggered years for no distinctive difference than those who chose the other option?
You got to be kidding! This has to be wrong, and – if it is true – it must be part of some bigger, comprehensive decision on the union leadership’s part. If not, they’d be condemning this last
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