Monday
Dec072009
On Florida health insurance boondoggle, McCollum gets it right
Monday, December 7, 2009 at 9:52AM 
Attorney General Bill McCollum was the only state official who took a conservative fiscal approach to the issue of free health insurance for approximately 27,479 Florida state employees.The U.S. Census Bureau counted 171,555 fulltime state employees in Florida in 2008, and The Miami Herald disclosed that among those, approximately 27,479 get a big perk. They pay no premiums for health insurance. Of those 27,479, approximately 2,431 are in the $100k plus salary range. A number of officials were quoted in the story about health insurance for state employees, but only one official quoted by the paper demonstrated fiscal conservatism—Attorney General Bill McCollum.
