Plan for Better Health Insurance Benefit Underway in Metro

SEIU is working with Councilmembers, the Mayor’s Office, and Metro Hospital Authority administrators to try and implement a new benefit for all Metro employees. The plan would make sure that any Metro employee who uses General Hospital for basic services would get their co-pay either waived or discounted. This would direct more business and dollars to General while at the same time, reducing overhead for Metro’s benefit program and passing the savings on to city employees.

The plan is a massive undertaking and work is still being done on it, but if this does pass, we are strongly urging union members to use General for health services as much as possible.