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CWA Healthcare Ombudsperson Newsletter – April 2025
The April 2025 issue of the monthly CWA Healthcare Ombudsperson newsletter is now available.
You can read it, as well as other back issues at https://www.cwa1031.org/members/health/newsletter :
Union Busting
March 2025 Healthcare Ombudsperson Newsletter
The March 2025 Healthcare Ombudsperson Newsletter has been released.
Each month, the CWA Healthcare Ombudsperson program publishes a newsletter with information about the State Health Benefits Program. This month’s topics include direct primary care, COBRA benefits, and mental health and recovery programs.
Tell Governor Murphy: Our healthcare needs to be affordable!
New Jersey’s public sector workers in State and Local Governments have given their all to keep New Jersey going strong – we provide vital public services, make sure that NJ’s roads remain open and residents get the assistance they need, and manage every public service from libraries to education to the DMV and beyond.
We’re the engine that keeps this state going, but we’re crumbling under the weight of healthcare. Enough is enough.
We are demanding that Governor Murphy support our proposal to:
- Address affordability for public sector workers: replace chapter 78 with lower contribution rates for all public employees.
- Improve governance and transparency: reform the SHBC to have more equal governance and require transparency and reporting on rate renewal calculations.
- Cost-control without cost shifting: implement Reference Based Pricing without balanced billing.
Taking these measures will address skyrocketing healthcare costs for New Jersey’s public sector workforce and control costs for all New Jerseyans!
Sign the Petition to Governor Murphy telling him: Stand with workers! Work with us to control healthcare costs and make healthcare affordable!
Go to: https://action.cwa.org/petitions/njhealthcarepetition/