Today’s report from the Turlock Journal has the details: The Turlock City Council voted to implement contracts with the City’s police and fire unions after negotiations reached impasse. … According to City […]
Central San gives up its crown
In 2015, we wrote about the unfairness of a proposed rate hike by Central San, while the district was simultaneously spending ratepayer money on things like “Rolls-Royce-style health, dental and vision insurance […]
Wildly inflated health costs are costing California taxpayers $3.3 billion annually
Spending 52 percent more than the market average for public employees’ medical insurance is costing California taxpayers at least $3.3 billion annually, according to a Transparent California analysis of 672,000 payroll records […]
LA has been violating state law for the past 10 years
Readers may have noticed that the 2017 Transparent California data for Los Angeles does not include the cost of benefits. The LA Daily News article, LA hides health care costs for individual employees […]
City of Industry pays ‘astronomical’ costs for employee health insurance
The Los Angeles News Group published a report on our data revealing astronomical levels of health costs for city workers: In 2014, the city paid $57,773 — $4,800 a month — for […]
LA Water District paid $42,942 for a single employee’s health insurance plan
Executive Summary The price of health insurance in America has consistently risen faster than the rate of inflation and, despite the intentions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is projected to continue […]
LA governments pay 71% more for health insurance than private employers, pay up to $43,000 per plan
Despite the warning from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) of the impending burden to state and local governments from rising healthcare costs, many Los Angeles governments are purchasing wildly exorbitant health insurance for their employees, at […]
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