Trenton’s city council decided late last week to switch to Aetna to insure its roughly 2,000 public workers in a move its mayor says will save taxpayers $4.3 million a year.
in September of more than 20% on health plans that cover more than 800,000 state and local government workers, including a 22.8% rate increase on premiums for local and county governments. Murphy struck a deal with several state workers unions to reduce their burden, but talks with local leaders have not produced a similar agreement.
Get politics news like this right to your inbox with the N.J. Politics newsletter. Add your email below and hit"subscribe"Michael Cerra, the executive director of the New Jersey League of Municipalities, couldn’t immediately say whether Trenton was the first local government in the state to make the shift to a private insurer. But he said others were in the process.“In my conversations with other urban mayors, they’re looking at it,” he said.
“Unless the administration steps in here and offers parity... that’s going to be the outcome,” Cerra told NJ Advance Media shortly after the approved rate hike, adding that the Murphy administration’s decision to move ahead with the double-digit rate increases was “profoundly shortsighted.”’s office declined comment late Monday, deferring to what Murphy recently said on the status of discussions with local leaders.
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