To: Curtis King (WA-14)
Defeat SB 6442! Save school employee health care
Dear Senator King,
Over the years, you have run on a Republican platform and as a Republican educator in your district, I have supported you. You have spoken out against wasteful State spending, and I have supported you. Now you support SB 6442, which allows the State to take over the health care benefit plans for thousands of public education employees, this goes against my beliefs and values. The state takeover will cost taxpayers millions of dollars and it abandons a system which provides for individual choice. The current system costs less and provides more than the government-provided PEBB plan for state employees, which includes legislators. The current PEBB plan created by the state HCA costs $82 more than the State currently provides for K-12 educators. Supporting this bill goes against values that you have supported and which I, as a Republican school employee and voter, believed you would support.
I urge you to vote against SB6442
Why is this important?
SB 6442 eliminates K-12 school employees’ current health care system and forces everyone into a costly new plan run by the state health care bureaucracy. SB 6442 will cost Washington taxpayers $45 million in new costs! SB 6442 will increase school employee insurance costs and reduce employee health care benefits! SB 6442 hurts everyone, including education support professionals. SB 6442 eliminates employer health care coverage for K-12 employees who work less than half time!