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Local meeting discusses council-member health benefits, participation rules and open-enrollment outreach
Summary
Participants discussed whether council members can use the individual insurance exchange or must meet employer-plan participation thresholds, heard that a 30-day referendum blocks immediate changes, and were told HR will hold open-enrollment outreach on Dec. 2.
Members of a local Bothell-area meeting spent much of their session Tuesday discussing how council-member health coverage is structured and what would be required for elected officials to participate in the city’s employer-sponsored plan.
A meeting participant identified in the transcript as Speaker 4 said federal-level changes under the Affordable Care Act "really doesn't affect the city a lot, or even at all," and emphasized that the city participates in a pooled plan through the Association of Washington Cities. "We share that with 90% of the cities in Washington state, which gives us a lot of buying power," Speaker 4 said, adding that the plan typically limits annual increases to modest…
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