Christie Plan for Workers to Pay 30% Care Premium May Spread
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One of Governor Chris Christie’s “tough choices” for balancing New Jersey’s $29.4 billion budget is making public workers cover 30 percent of health-care premiums, about what their private-sector counterparts pay.
Governments across the nation may follow the 48-year-old Republican’s example to boost civil servants’ share of medical costs to almost double the average for U.S. state and local employees.