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(Continued from Page 1} he said, usually means double premium payments with no increase in benefits.
“How about the children who can’t afford $4.50 and do need the program?” asked board member Walter Masterson.
“I’d be opposed to collecting $4.50 from the students who are interested and applying the funds to cover all the children (at the $2.10 rate),” countered Eldred.
The school systems that have adopted the group plan pay the premiums, not the parents, Bloomer explained. Schools choose this option, he said, to ensure complete insurance coverage on all students and to eliminate paper work by teachers required to insure each child individually.
Eastham asked if children elected not to participate in the insurance program last year because their families couldn’t afford the premium payment.
Bloomer replied that he had no information on why students chose not to buy insurance coverage through the school.
Can the board make it mandatory for each child to pay $2.10 for insurance upon enrollment in school? asked Eastham.
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