Analysis of the report “Death Spiral” on state health services

By Sean Spiller

At the beginning of this week, the state published a report on state health services that hundreds of thousands of state employees and pensioners insure health insurance. The report stipulates that radical reforms are required – including the reduction of state plans in the long run and at short notice that public employees pay more out of their own pocket.

For those who rely on state health plans, the idea that you should pay more out of your own pocket is as insulting as it is unsustainable. The displacement of costs solves nothing to solve the underlying challenges in our health system. The request to the employees of the public sector to pay more while insurance companies and hospitals earn millions of dollars is a non -starter for me.

If the displacement of costs does not work, the report even suggests that these state plans may be dismantled. This would leave school districts, our district, our state and municipal administrations on the private market.

So let's make it clear what our chosen officials offer – we pay more in the state plans or are subject to the profitating broker and insurance company on the private market, where I will also pay more there.

As a union leader, I did the work to develop health plans that have saved hundreds of millions of dollars to the employer and employee. I know it is possible because I did it. When designing these solutions, we did not ask the employees to pay more – we found cost savings measures within the Network for Care and Service. It was a win-win situation. We currently have a stack of recommendations to which the state could not react to increase the cost savings instead of shifting the load. We have done it before and can do it again.

How did we get here?

The answer is tragically simple. Politics and money. I have spoken about this about the campaign path since the first day. The rulers collect a lot of money to be chosen – money from those who then have access and influence on the government. Those who protect their own interests about the interests and needs of people like you and me.

For this reason, my campaign is proud to be financed transparently by small dollar dispensers by educators and other hard -working people in New Jersey – those that I represent. We have not accepted -PAC -PAC dollars, we are not financed by wealthy developers and real estate mogul. No kushner or musk money. No Wall Street Financers.

This also applies to the independent editions that support our campaign. Working in New Jersey is financed by the NJEA – a union that has decided to invest in this election through a democratic process that has decided, precisely because we know that critical issues such as health advantages are in balance.

The same does not apply to my opponents – they have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from the obvious and special interests in their campaign accounts. We already know this and everyone should suggest that you will be committed to a chosen office.

And the independent expenses that you support – who knows because you only have to disclose your donor 11 days before the election. Then we will know who else you will be obliged. Too late for the almost 200,000 people who have already voted.

How we see the dangerous effects of the excessive influence of the health sector on our government – the insurance companies, brokers and hospital conglomerates – let me repeat our demand for all candidates in this race #showushemoney. Request that the independent expenses that support your campaign reveal your donors today. Do it now. The voters deserve to know.

And I suggest that every public employee receives a clear answer from all candidates where they are in the plans of state health services.

Let me be clear here in my position. As a governor, I will stabilize and strengthen our state health plans, so that all public employees know that they have an affordable, high -quality healthcare system. I will request the transparency of hospital awards, including the insurance company with insurance companies, which will hold state contracts. I will do what other states have done to control the costs, including the determination of cost benchmarks and the introduction of reference -based prices. I will rule in the broker who benefits at the expense of taxpayers. And I will always fight for healthcare as a right, not as a privilege.
I am the candidate you know that it is ready for this fight because I am not obliged to finance the special interests that my opponents finance and because I have already fought this fight.

Sean Spiller of New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) is a candidate for governor in the democratic area code.

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