Officials at a handful of hospitals will finally get to review a confidential consultant’s report and other documents they claim are at the heart of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield’s alleged plan to exclude them from a preferable insurance network under the company’s OMNIA health plan. On Monday the New Jersey Supreme Court granted four […]
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David Tepp It is challenging to find any degree of optimism in the healthcare debate. Mostly, what we hear are rhetorical grandstanding and bitter divisiveness. Meanwhile, the uninsured continue to suffer and, for the fortunate ones who have coverage, their income is being siphoned by skyrocketing insurance premiums and prescription medication costs. Yet, there is […]
The Senate’s Republican leadership released a revised health care bill Thursday afternoon, a move welcomed by House conservatives even as they were reluctant to comment before digesting it. “We are going to withhold judgment,” Mark Meadows, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said earlier in the day during the monthly Conversations With Conservatives event on […]
The ugly keeps getting uglier, Save Jerseyans, and there’s no let-up in sight. On Tuesday, one week after New Jersey government reopened from a budget impasse-fueled shutdown, the nationally-respected Mercatus Center down at George Mason University released its state fiscal condition rankings and found the glorious Garden State in… dead last place. Trenton should’ve stayed […]
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TRENTON – Lesbians and other people who want to use non-conventional means to conceive a child are entitled to insurance coverage for fertility treatments if they work for state government or the public schools, under a measure Gov. Chris Christie signed into law Monday. The law mandating coverage for infertility was defined narrowly, sponsors say, […]
Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff In 1866, Surrogate Gideon J. Tucker wrote that “[n]o man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.” Over a hundred years later, the New Jersey Legislature is doing its very best to keep Surrogate Tucker’s warning pertinent by once again advancing special-interest legislation that reaches for a new […]
Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff Prediction: Sometime in the foreseeable future, the federal government will step in to address the self-inflicted crisis in state and local government pension and health-benefits funding. The only real question for us in New Jersey is whether it will happen soon enough to save us from ourselves. How and why? Let’s review where […]
It’s arguably the number #1 affordability issue facing New Jersey voters as they select a successor to Chris Christie this November, Save Jerseyans…. What to do about New Jersey’s pensions system? Here’s a brief round-up of the four Republican candidates’ positions (from their own mouths): — Lieutenant Governor KIM GUADAGNO — Assemblyman and Businessman JACK CIATTARELLI […]
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That’s what he told NJ Advance Media over the weekend, Save Jerseyans. And it’s a plan that’s sure to raise eyebrows should former SNL comedian and present day radio host Joe Piscopo jump into this year’s gubernatorial race. According to NJ Advance Media, Piscopo believes exempting firefighters, police, state troopers and teachers from state income […]
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The applicable question might not be who will be our next governor but, rather, who would want to be New Jersey’s successor to Chris Christie? This week, S&P announced that it’s downgrading New Jersey’s credit rating from “A” to “A-.” It’s the 10th credit rating downgrade since January 2010. S&P’s slam comes two weeks after a […]
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They’re hoping something will stick, eventually, if they keep throwing stuff at the wall, Save Jerseyans. It’s not exactly a strong sign of campaign exuding confidence, is it? Nevertheless, after revisiting the SCOTUS-settled gay marriage debate didn’t work, the NJ-05 campaign of Democrat challenger Josh Gottheimer decided to take a shot at incumbent Republican Scott […]
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TRENTON — A Superior Court judge is expected to decide Monday whether to order members of the state’s powerful teachers’ union in a dispute with Gov. Chris Christie’s administration to give up its boycott of meetings setting health care benefits for public employees. The administration took members of the New Jersey Education Association who sit […]
By The Staff | The Save Jersey Blog Trenton never changes, Save Jerseyans. On Monday, Assemblyman John DiMaio (R-Warren, Hunterdon) let Democrats have it for proposing no less than nine separate spending bills on Assembly Appropriations Committee agenda for a single day while a paid sick leave measure cleared the State Senate. “Collectively these bills, if enacted, would cost […]
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Tuesday’s budget address is appropriately renewing the budget/pension recrimination battle, Save Jerseyans, so if you haven’t already, check out our contributor Joe Sinagra’s Pension Death Spiral post. It’s a great quick primer for the ‘how’ behind our current situation. Want something even easier to digest? This chart […]
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By The Staff | The Save Jersey Blog While applauding Governor Chris Christie‘s willingness to tackle a new phase of the pension and benefits reform fight in today’s FY 2017 budget address, Save Jerseyans, Americans for Prosperity state director Erica Jedynak sees room for improvement. “On the other hand, the governor’s $34.8 billion budget proposal […]
By The Staff | The Save Jersey Blog Unsurprisingly, Save Jerseyans, New Jersey Republicans and the New Jersey (Mis)education Association (NJEA) hold wildly differing opinions of a new Christie Administration commission report calling for additional public employee benefit cuts heading into next Tuesday’s annual budget address. Assembly Republican Budget Officer Declan O’Scanlon (R-Monmouth) praised the […]
