No more $20 insurance for Iowa lawmakers?

[TexasTowelie]

Iowa lawmakers took the first steps Wednesday to fix an oversight that has allowed them to underpay on their government-provided health insurance by as much as $450 a month, potentially violating state law.

Senate File 212 specifically limits the benefits offered to full-time employees of the legislative branch to the same insurance plans and payments made by non-union employees of the state's executive branch.

The bill, which unanimously passed a three-person subcommittee Wednesday, was introduced this week following a Des Moines Register investigation that showed many legislators were paying $20 a month for their health insurance premiums.

Each lawmaker should be paying between $141 to $446 a month under a 1983 law that extends executive branch insurance plans to the legislative branch but requires they partake in the same plans as non-union employees.

Read more: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/investigations/2017/02/08/no-more-20-insurance-iowa-lawmakers/97638232/

[flying_wahini]

1. Iowa taxpayers paying over $29 K monthly to cover them?

Pisses me off royally.
I wish someone would make our Reps pay what the rest of us pay...
Probably wouldn't hurt much since most of them are millionaires!

[TexasTowelie]

2. The real travesty

is that they are paying the rate of unionized employees while they are trying to limit union employees in benefit negotiations. Let them have the same access to health insurance as the non-unionized employees and pay the corresponding rate. There should be clawback provisions so that the legislators have to reimburse the state for benefits they never should have received.

[progressoid]

3. I'd be shocked if they actually follow through with this.