Health Insurance & your tax dollar

Just think about this.  Each of the thousands of WALMART stores offered their employes health insurance.  The health insurance was not offered from the corporate office but each of the stores had to go and find their own.

That would not make any sense.  It would be expensive.  You would not get the same kind of price break and it would not be even.  One store may make each employe pay $1.00 for the insurance while the next store could make each pay $5.00.

The same would go for the retirement plans.

So why does it make sense for Wisconsin governments to do this.  Why should each county, city, town, township, school district and whatever else we have out their have their own plans.  Maybe it is time to combine them all under the state plan.  The same ones that the Wisconsin State employees have.  

We would give the option to any school district to come into the state plan immediately or wait until their current contract is up to switch over to the state plan.

This may be the one issue that could get the unions and the business community on the same side.  The insurance industry would not like this plan as they could see some of them being frozen out of the market and the unions would not like because they could not control the funds.  SO BE IT.

We need to modernize how we finance and spend our local tax dollars.