Healthcare Cost increase for Educators

Leave it to NMPSIA to find a method to violate the spirit of a law passed this year by the New Mexico Legislature to prevent an increase in healthcare cost to educators. Since they were prohibited from increasing premiums they decided to go around the law and increase co-pays and to increase minimums to $2,700 a year for what they call co-insurance.

This comes on top of a 1.5% increase to educators on their pension benefits forced payments. Where the state reduced their side of this payment I can see no reason at present for good educators to want to work in a state where in hard economic times gluttonous individuals are free to spend and not to reduce waste while at the same time decreasing educators take home pay.

This is a clear example of just why our federal representatives should support healthcare reform. Healthcare administrative providers care nothing for individuals who are not rich enough to pay for their ever increasing high cost services. Reform is a dirty word to these administrative types. While the president works hard to reform healthcare administrative types work harder to find ways around local and federal laws so they can increase the cost of healthcare to hard working educators in this state.