Health Care Bills

• ESSB 2245 passed out of the Senate Ways and Means Committee and preserves your health insurance eligibility rights and maintains the standard that benefits must remain substantially equivalent to 1993 levels.

• ESSB 5892 passed the House Ways and Means Committee and now ensures that those taking anti-psychotic and anti-depression medication can continue to get brand-name drugs rather than generics.

CALLS STILL NEEDED ON HEALTH CARE FUNDING

We still need calls to your legislators with a basic message on your health care funding:

Call 1-800-562-6000 and urge your legislators to fund state employee health care and benefits. State employees have already given up more than $1 billion in economics during this economic crisis and on average remain underpaid compared to other public- and private-sector workers.