The Health Care Page
This is a complicated subject, so we decided to boil it down to a couple of points.
| In 2011, the teacher pays 14% of their insurance premiums for family coverage. The taxpayers pay $1,073 PER MONTH (or 86%) for that teacher. | |
| The teacher's deductible is $3000 and the taxpayer pays the first $2100 (70%) of that deductible. |
| –By the end of the new contract, the taxpayers could be responsible for 86% of $22,440 annual premiums before a “cap” kicks in. |