0:21
Ona Brause
31:05 - 31:26
“I can tell you what the rising cost of healthcare costs us, and the medical increase for general government, I believe, was between $4 and $6 million this year, and that's just the additional money that we have to pay for the medical coverage on the employer side.”
- Speaker
- Ona Brause
- Timestamp
- 31:05 – 31:26
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 16, 2026
From the transcript
Through the Chair to Member Baldwin Day, it's hard to isolate it to say that that number is responsible for the gap, right, because it's all a cumulative total, but I can tell you what the rising cost of healthcare costs us, and the medical increase for general government, I believe, was between $4 and $6 million this year, and that's just the additional money that we have to pay for the medical coverage on the employer side. Yeah, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
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