Special Board of Aldermen Public Hearing Page 19
Chairman Dowd
Is there anyone else that would like to speak to the first part of the budget or the Mayor’s Office?
Paula Johnson
| love this woman. | think she was just spectacular. Question here. You added a restructured
position Mayor from Public Works that’s going to be in your office now — a PR person or is that going
into Public Works?
Mayor Donchess
That position is not a new position and it’s in Public Works. It’s a person who answers constituent
calls and tries to explain for our Public Works Department Division what their activities are.
Paula Johnson
| just want to follow up. What is the average deductible and out of pocket for city worker’s healthcare
benefit?
Mayor Donchess
| think we need Mr. Budreau to answer the questions of how much a city employee on average pays
for health insurance. | would say the number is about $14,000 per person depending on the plan. |’ll
let Mr. Budreau answer that.
Director Budreau
Good evening. Yours was a question of the plan design the average deductible and out of pocket.
Paula Johnson
Well if you go to the doctor like | have a $2,000 per person.
Director Budreau
We have several plan choices. Many of the employees are in an HMO and that’s a $20 co-pay plan
for most visits and it’s a $250 single deductible and a family deductible of $500 or $750 for outpatient
surgery and the like. We're encouraging employees and we now have about 250 in the high
deductible health plan. That’s a $2,000 individual deductible, $4,000 family deductible.
Paula Johnson
That’s the average what’s going out there in the private sector now. How much is the long term?
How much do they have to take out before everything is totally covered? | know my husband’s is like
$6,000 total. That’s totally out of pocket.
Director Budreau
The high deductible plan is $4,000.
