shreveporttimes.com
December 26, 2003
Health care eats up parish pay raises
By Don Walker
Caddo Parish employees will receive an across-the-board 2.2 percent pay raise at the start of the new year that, for many, will be swallowed by a 32.7 percent increase in the amount they pay in monthly premiums for health care insurance.
Caddo Administrator Bill Hanna said the increase is unfortunate, yet unavoidable.
“All of this started back with 9/11. Home insurance, auto insurance went up, too. I don’t think there’s a person in the country who hasn’t been affected, and what caused this to escalate was a terrorist attack.”
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Comment: Ā The rhetoric of the Bush administration certainly has been very effective, but apparently we need to work on ours.
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