Lorain County commissioners sort out well being care change for county workers – Morning Journal

Lorain County commissioners are intent on serving to a county worker who wants a lifesaving medical process not at present lined by the county’s medical insurance coverage plan.

Racheal Cambarare, an worker of Lorain County Job and Household Providers, attended the fee’s assembly June 27 to ask the county officers to assist her get the medical process she wants for survival.

Cambarare was accompanied by greater than a dozen co-workers and UAW union members who have been there in assist of her.

Cambarare described her latest analysis of a life-threatening uncommon situation that requires cardiac rehabilitation.

Nevertheless, the county’s insurance coverage plan, which hasn’t been up to date since 1999, gained’t cowl the remedy, she advised the officers.

Fee Vice President Jeff Riddell stated on the assembly that he was “disturbed” to study the county’s insurance coverage plan for approximate 2,000 workers hasn’t been up to date for many years.

County Administrator Jeff Armbruster additionally stepped as much as element the progress of updating the coverage which was “grandfathered” in earlier than some procedures have been added to the medical insurance coverage.

“We’re not taking this frivolously, by any means,” Armbruster stated.

“Let’s simply assist as a lot as we are able to inside the constraints of the legislation,” Riddell advised him.

Commissioner Michelle Hung requested the workers to compile a 20-year historical past on the medical insurance coverage info.

Fee President David Moore was within the technique of engaged on the insurance coverage state of affairs in 2021, nevertheless, he stated these plans have been thwarted.

“We have been working with the county administrator and human useful resource director for the primary half of 2021, then the ability of the board shifted, and people plans have been placed on the shelf till not too long ago,” Moore stated.

The county is working towards altering insurance coverage suppliers on the finish of the 12 months, Armbruster stated.

In different information, the commissioners employed former Republican state Rep. David Greenspan to help with coordination of particular tasks.