Public workers losing free health insurance
Photo credit: Newsday/John Paraskevas, 2011 | A Suffolk highway patrol officer talks to a driver during a traffic stop.
One labor contract at a time, the practice of governments paying all of a civil servant's health care premiums seems to be going the way of doctors making house calls.
Last week, the Suffolk Police Benevolent Association agreed to have new officers pay up to 15 percent, with the county's other new union employees also expected to make such contributions for the first time.
In April,...
