GovGuam health insurance bill is heard on session floor
Guam – The Guam Regional Medical City continues to combat claims of a staggering increase to health insurance premiums for taxpayers, a claim made by Take Care one of GovGuam’s current health insurance providers.
“It’s preposterous for Take Care to claim there’s gonna be these huge rate increases because if common sense tells you there’s 84% of the market that currently has GRMC on their network already priced for it, the only ones that are looking at getting an increase are those that have Take Care,” said Vice President of GRMC’s Corporate Affairs Eric Plinske.
Plinske provided a breakdown of the costs to health insurance premiums for GovGuam, since the addition of GRMC as an in-network healthcare provider in 2016.
“There was about a 13% increase in the medical premiums,” said Plinske. “Then it only went up the following year, premiums all things considered, including GRMC, went up 1% going into 2017, 5% going into 2018 and went up 2% going into 2019.”
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