After a four-month break, members of the Jacksonville City Council have revived their Duval DOGE hearings, this time targeting a longstanding and growing deficit in the city’s employee group health insurance fund.
The council has hired St. Augustine-based consulting firm The Bailey Group, which DOGE Committee Chair Ron Salem says will help find possible tweaks to the city’s group health and prescription drug insurance plans to circumvent rising claims costs and reduce what grew to a $21 million deficit the fund this year.
“I don’t think that we can continue at the pace we’re at. (The deficit is) going to be $150 million in four or five years with the rate of inflation in health care,” Salem told news reporters after a DOGE Committee meeting Tuesday…