There was talk at the Statehouse about creating a “pooled” health care program for all public school educators in Ohio. Could retired teachers join this pool?
There is no mandatory pooling for school employees in Ohio. The School Employees Health Care Board (SEHCB) was established to conduct a study. Its study recommended against the idea of mandatory pooling (statewide or regional) and, instead, recommended that statewide standards/best practices be developed for all school district health plans. Language removing the pooling requirements and allowing the SEHCB to develop statewide standards was adopted in the budget bill (H.B. 119) signed by Gov. Strickland on June 30, 2007. It is unlikely that a public school or schools would want to include a retired population in its pool, due to the higher health care costs older, retired workers tend to have versus younger, active workers.
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