Wow. Hmmm….weird. That is just about the period of time when the “vaccines” were introduced. I wonder what percentage of City employees took that jab…and if the exploding claims are related somehow.
Those would be the generous benefits City employees get but which Finley and Ryan never mention every year when they are up there begging for salary increases.
How big are those health insurance benefits?
Last year, it cost the City $11,640 per employee [page 78]. So when you feel bad for Ryan Ward because he is only making about $113,000 per year, remember to add $11,640 on to that number (and of course, another $14,000 the City hands him for retirement thanks to a 2-1 matching scheme).
But what has REALLY blown up is the “Total Cost of Claims” – the amount that City employees have cost Baylor Scott and White (their insurer).
In the March 2020 through Feb 2021 period, the cost of claims was $833,000 for 113 employees. Or about $7,380 per year per employee. Fun fact: this was right smack in the middle of the “deadly pandemic” where everyone was supposedly overflowing the hospitals and dying like flies.
The next year (3/21 through 2/22), the cost of claims popped almost 30% up to $1.07 MILLION for 112 employees –or $9,600 per year each! Fun fact: the jab was introduced in Jan of 2021.
This last period (3/22 through 2/23), the cost of claims popped ANOTHER 27% and reached an eye-watering $1.365 MILLION for 114 employees – or about TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS EACH!
Yes, that is correct. The cost of claims averages out to $12,000 for every single one of the 114 employees the City has.
Do these employees have any kind of deductible? Out here in the real world, I have to pay over $950 a month and I have a massive $5,000 deductible. Basically, I’m out about $17,000 before my insurance even starts to kick in for me. Which is a huge kick in the nuts every May.
So either City employees have no deductible at all (MORE huge benefits) OR every single employee is averaging even HIGHER than $12,000 in expenditures per year (the $12,000 PLUS whatever comes out of their pockets in deductibles).
How is that even possible? I’m on old fart with all kinds of body parts failing and I don’t think I claimed anywhere NEAR that amount from my insurance.
Rest assured, the City will be paying MUCH higher insurance rates for their employees next period. Of course, that will all be forgotten in July when Finley and Ryan stand before council and ask for another 6% raise for every swinging dick that works for the City because “salaries are low compared to Fredericksburg”.