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What the Governor’s Talking about
Today
Wednesday, February 17,
2010
Governor Issues
Executive Directive to
The governor today issued Executive Directive 2010-1
that clears the way for local units of government and other public entities such
as school districts and universities to participate in state of
“A
state health-care benefit plan recently negotiated with a number of state
employee groups reduces the state’s cost of providing health-care coverage to
every newly-hired state employee by 21.3 percent,” the governor said. “By
offering other public employers and their employees the option of participating
in this new state health-care benefit plan, we are in essence allowing them to
reduce their costs, too, which will benefit all
The
executive directive gives the director of the Department of Management and
Budget (DMB) and the director of the Office of the State Employer (OSE) until
June 30, 2010, to identify and remove any barriers to participation in the
state’s health-care benefit plans by local units of government and other public
entities.
Local units of
government include cities, villages, townships and counties. Other public
entities include school districts and public colleges and
universities.
All the state’s health-care benefit plans would be
open to participation, including the state’s PPO plan, health maintenance
organization plans, prescription drug coverage programs, dental-care plans and
vision-care plans.
Executive Directive 2010-1 also
instructs the directors of DMB and OSE to work with the state personnel director
and the Civil Service Commission on any changes to Civil Service rules,
regulations or policies that may be necessary to facilitate participation in
state health-care benefit plans by local units of government and other public
entities.
Opening up the state’s health-care benefit plans to
other public employers and employees is one of 29 reforms unveiled by the
governor in January to transform
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Jon
Ogar
Senior
Writer/Editor
Communications
Division
Office of Governor
Jennifer M. Granholm
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