Modesto City Schools Superintendent Vanessa Buitrago has written a letter to local education and policy leaders asking to collaborate on solutions for the cost of healthcare for employees. She said that rising costs of healthcare are financially untenable for districts to individually cover and that educators deserve affordable healthcare.
She said further study should be done on healthcare pooling, whereby educators statewide would be able to opt into a single, large insurance pool. That solution would require legislation to be passed.
“I think that really the most responsible option is to pool all educators across the state and have an opportunity for them to opt into healthcare,” Buitrago said. “When you’ve got thousands and thousands of people using that same coverage, it’s going to drop the price.”…