Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Human Resource Management
 
Board
Department of Human Resource Management
 
chapter
Commonwealth of Virginia Health Benefits Program [1 VAC 55 ‑ 20]
Action This action will amend section 1VAC 55 320(E) to include adults, other than spouses and incapacitated adult children, as participants in the Health Benefits Plan for State Employees
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 12/23/2009
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12/1/09  10:47 am
Commenter: Greg Letiecq

Are you kidding me?
 

In case you haven't noticed, we've got a tremendous budget shortfall this upcoming biennium, and we're going to extend taxpayer-funded health benefits to any adult residing in a house along with a state employee???  How much is this going to cost the taxpayer?  How many police officers are we going to have to lay off in order to afford extending health coverage to renters, extended family, and the homosexual partners of state employees?

This is so beyond stupid I have to wonder if Nancy Pelosi came up with this idiotic idea.

You may want to incrementally establish nationalized healthcare like this, but there's no way in hell you're going to do it with my taxpayer dollars when a tenth of our citizens are unemployed and struggle to pay the taxes they're already burdened with.  Stop trying to bankrupt the Commonwealth and start exercising at least a facsimile of fiscal discipline before we taxpayers push to outsource all state human resources to the private sector and eliminate your job!

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