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Dear Treasurer Folwell, Health care providers should not charge secret prices, and the NCGA should not underfund the State Health Plan. The $34 billion + in unfunded liabilities assumes all employees retire at once. Please stop using this number to raise alarms, and focus instead on the $400 million annual underfunding as of 2017. Please... Continue Reading →
The key date for state employees wondering if State Treasurer Dale Folwell will stick to his “Clear Pricing Project,” resulting in many of their physicians and nearby hospitals leaving the State Health Plan network, is not January 1, 2020, when the new plan begins, it is October 1, 2019 when open enrollment begins. Like many... Continue Reading →
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