Lauren Dorgan reports in the Concord Monitor that House and Senate negotiators have agreed that state employees should have to pay a premium for their state health care benefits:
Retired state employees will, for the first time, pay a monthly premium for their state-provided insurance under a tentative agreement struck yesterday by lawmakers hashing out the state's 2010 and 2011 budget.
The House-Senate negotiating panel agreed on a fee of $65 per single retiree or $130 per couple for retired state employees. Negotiators yesterday hashed over a wide array of other issues yesterday - including payments to charter schools, changes to the prison system, new rules for the liquor commission and how to pay for road repairs - but made few decisions on the biggest issues facing them in settling the state's roughly $11.5 billion, two-year budget for the fiscal years starting July 1.
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