Murphy, Assembly staffs in talks on NJEA healthcare reform
Gov. Phil Murphy said his office has been involved with Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin’s bill to blunt rising health care premiums for the state’s public school workers.
“We have been involved. Our team has been working with the Assembly staff. We are committed overall — I don’t get into specifics on a particular piece of legislation that we haven’t made a decision on,” Murphy said, citing a rule he frequently ignores.
“We are committed completely to the notion of lowering healthcare costs as a general matter, but doing so with not only not taking it out on the individual members but in fact to enhance their own situation somehow, either through better healthcare or better cost for them.”
NJ Advanced Media on Friday reported Murphy backed Coughlin’s proposal.
Senate President Steve Sweeney is firmly opposed to the proposal, which has the backing of the New Jersey Education Association, an organization with which the senate president has long feuded.
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