What is the goal of the plan?
It reforms the inefficient, disjointed way that Michigan provides health care for more than 400,000 public employees, which will save up to $900 million a year, protect jobs and help ensure access to quality health care. The plan is based on these simple principles: • Administration and delivery of health care for state and other public employees should be done with maximum efficiency and cost savings. • Public employees – from the local school bus driver to the Governor – should be able to choose from the same health care plans. • Health care benefits provided in Michigan’s public sector should be similar to those in the private sector and in other states’ public realm, both in cost and quality, while preserving collective bargaining. • State health care plans should follow “best medical practices” – standards that will protect patient safety and reduce unnecessary treatment. These practices include the right to get a second opinion.
