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Article: Millersville Seeks Insurance Solution
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- February 11, 2009
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BY JAMES BUESCHER
Correspondent
As in many Lancaster County municipalities wrestling with health
insurance, Millersville Borough officials are struggling to find an
affordable way to keep their employees covered.
At a Jan. 27 meeting, council said the borough is considering
joining an intergovernmental insurance cooperative, in which
government entities band together to negotiate health insurance
coverage at a lower cost.
Borough manager Ed Arnold said Millersville is in the
"investigation phase," and the matter should come up for a vote by
the end of February.
"We had been relying on our current insurer (Pittsburgh-based
Highmark, Inc.) for our health coverage," Arnold said, "but when we ...