State Health Plan for All?

 One Democrat raises the possibility that state residents could "buy in" to the health plan currently given to State employees.

We thought that might be interesting, so we looked around a bit.  ("A bit" is all you can do unless you're actually enrolled in the plan or have unlimited time.)

One would pay $325/month for the standard-deductible family plan. 

Sorry!!  Can't tell you what the deductible is, nor anything about a dental plan, but let's take a SWAG and say that the health deductible is $4,000./family/year.

$325/month is clearly a subsidized premium--that is, State taxpayers kick in a bunch of money to bring the premium down to that level.  So the first question is this:  what IS the subsidy?   Next:  will the same subsidy be offered to non-State-employee enrollees?

Next question:  how will the State afford it?

Certainly, Ms. Roys has answers.  Right??

By the way:  in many parts of the real world, family premiums are about $750/month--or more. State employees are getting one Helluva good deal.