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Article: Alabama Legislature looks into controlling health insurance costs.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- November 22, 2004
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2004 NOV 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Alabama Governor Bob Riley summoned the legislature into special session November 1, 2004, to consider a plan he says is the first step, but not the final fix, for controlling rapidly rising health insurance costs for public employees.
Lobbying groups for public employees are hopeful that their support of Riley's health insurance plan will be followed by a cost-of-living increase, their first in more than 2 years.
Alabama's costs for providing health insurance coverage to state workers and education employees have risen from $320 million to $970 million in 6 years. Riley first tried to address the issue in the ...