Moves Forward to City Employees Health Insurance
The case dates from last spring, when the Omaha City Council voted on a major reform of health insurance plan. A plan to change health insurance for current and some former Omaha city employee has the blessing of a federal judge. Those who retired prior to May 2010 will be no change in benefits. New retirees will face premiums.
Initially all required city retirees to pay premiums when they never paid. A federal judge declared the plan illegal. The new plan that’s for everyone who was retired since May 2010 and pay health insurance premiums. The savings for the city is estimated at $ 1 million per year. The original plan is an annual savings of $ 4 million to the city.
City unions, police, fire and civil, sued, saying the council was wrong with the conditions of negotiated deals to change. While in the focus era that the city provided proper knowledge of the changes and it makes growth of healthy public. In this fact that the dispute is in the best interests of the unions and the city, and when Omaha Battalion court noted evidence that the significant budget issues and that made “significant concessions” from its original plan of the plan could take effect.