GovGuam leaders demand employees' right to choose health insurance provider

Department of Corrections major Anton huggin tells KOAT M's containing kovat his fellow corrections officers have had their share of gripes bug of guam's sole-source health insurance contract with that now we've had a few officers a little upset about it but see those that have some serious medical issues there's medical concerns and they need it for them or their family uh a lot of it you know just getting referrals some of it is just reimbursement having to pay up front and pay some of their medical

bills out-of-pocket we asked organ if he thought prison staff and other stakeholders in Gov gloms health insurance contract would be paying close attention to session this week I think a lot of them are interested in if there's choice I mean choices always look at it you know when we did the insurance before when we had the different carriers we would go into the who would meet with individual representatives from the company and go over the plan each plan was usually different unique from the other and sometimes it's good

because if you have family issues there are certain medical conditions that you have a concern about you you can see which plan will cover you best in that area when you only have one one insurance companies that's here take it or leave it it is you really got no choice meanwhile mayor's council Guam President Dan you know mayor Melissa savaris tells Kay um her colleagues have not wavered in their support of bill two five five we believe in choices especially for our our people

who are government employees and you know it this past year we had our struggles with just having their adjust to one carrier but yeah that's that's about you know we did send in a resolution to support that measure to to give employees a choice of to choose a medical insurance for their families mayor savaris says the council won't start new dialogue with senators about their support of the measure adding that

she hopes legislators will take their unanimous resolution into consideration for guam's news network chris barnett reports