[Vision2020] ID Public Records Law: UI

[Saundra Lund]

Ron, do you happen to know what retiree & dependent health insurance rates
are now, and if so, do you care to share?

 

While the rates & coverage details were publicly available until the last
couple of years, it's now apparently Top Secret.

 

And, I'm not sure retiree health care is a significant budgetary expense any
longer.  I have a HBT (Health Benefits Trust) FY2009 Overall Financial
Profile prepared by the UI ending June 30, 2009, and the numbers are . . .
interesting.  Employer Contribution is listed as $37,897.08; Employee (or
retiree, presumably) Contribution is $2,664,358.28 for Total Contributions
of $2,702,255.36.

 

Total Expenses (that includes EAP, medical, psychological, dental, and AON
insurance) were $2,165,360.70.  That total is clearly less than the money
collected from retirees, yes?

 

Of course, I'm just an ignorant crackpot who surely doesn't understand the
intricacies of things like this, so I'm sure there must be some explanation
that just looking at the numbers fails to tell.  I'd be happy to learn the
explanation, but since the info is apparently Top Secret, and since UI
counsel apparently feels it's appropriate to blatantly ignore Public Records
Requests, I'm left in the dark.

 

I'll also add that State employees and their dependents are eligible for
health insurance, although I don't know how those rates  or plan details
which I have compare to those of UI retirees since the UI details seem to be
Top Secret info for the UI in recent years.

 

 

 

Saundra Lund

Moscow, ID

 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.

~ Edmund Burke

 

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From: Ron Force [mailto:rforce2003 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 9:53 PM
To: Paul Rumelhart; Saundra Lund
Cc: Moscow Vision 2020
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] ID Public Records Law: UI

 

 

 

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In my previous missive, I forgot another issue that the UI is dealing with:
retiree health insurance.  The UI is the only state agency that continued
health insurance for retirees that met at least the rule of  80 (combination
of age and years of service).  They provide primary insurance until the
retiree is 65 and qualifies for Medicare, then acts as a secondary
insurance, covering costs not paid by Medicare above a $2000 deductible.
This benefit has been withdrawn for all new employees, and scaled back for
those not retired yet, but carrying this is, I believe, a significant
budgetary expense. The state doesn't contribute anything to this benefit.
It was started thirty-some years ago as a nice thing to do without much
thought as to how it would be funded.  Of course, they didn't forsee the
astronomical increase in the cost of health insurance.

Ron Force
Moscow ID USA
>

Saundra, you paint a dismal picture of the UI health care plan.  Are 
there any positives that can be seen anywhere?  Aside from the 
apparently small demographic I fall into?

Paul


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