Public workers brace for higher premiums as lawmakers raid health insurance fund

Lexington Herald Leader: To help them balance the state budget, lawmakers plan to sweep hundreds of millions of dollars from a health insurance fund that covers 263,913 public workers and their relatives — 6 percent of Kentucky’s population.

How deeply they carve into the Kentucky Group Health Insurance fund won’t be known until House and Senate members reach a compromise on the state’s two-year, $22-billion spending plan, possibly as early as next week.

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