The NYC Teacher Healthcare Crisis: Part 1, 'Great Insurance!'

This is the first of three parts about the problem with health insurance that city employees are (all) about to face. This is some fairly wonky stuff but I'm convinced that, unless there is a shift in policy, we will all be paying -a lot- for our healthcare. 

Part 1 is about how great our great insurance is.
Part 2 about how the city has tried, and failed, to slow the increase in healthcare costs to its employees.
Part 3 is about what we, as employees lost (and will soon lose) for that failure.



Teachers in New York City enjoy some of the very best healthcare in the State of New York. Teachers here (and most other New York City employees) can choose from more than twenty (when you take the prescription riders into account) different options of health coverage (see here). Some of these choices require deductions to be made from our salary but these deductions are small when compared with teachers from other districts throughout the state.  And the deductions are just plan tiny when compared with any employee working in the private sector.


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