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Employee Survey Results April 2011 4. Please rank the current health benefit features by importance to you (and your covered dependents if applicable). One (1) is most important and seven (7) is least important. Res onse Options Rank No remium for Emplo ee Onl covers e 1 Office Visit Co-pays of $15/primary care & $30/s ecialist 2 $0 Co-pa for Generic Prescri tions 3 $250/Year Deductible 4 10% or less cost for hospitalizations, surgeries, diagnostic tests, etc. (plus $250 deductible 5 $15/$30 Co- a s for Brand Name Prescription 6 5. Costs for health insurance have more than doubled since 2002. The following are additional steps that can be taken to manage costs. Indicate all that you would support as an effort to keep all premiums as low as possible. Res onse Options Response Conduct an audit to ensure only eligible dependents are enrolled 68.1 Require smokers, who don't take steps to quit, to pay higher costs for health covers e 62.1 Require employees to participate in wellness activities to receive the hi hest available level of coverage 49.3% Require use of mail order for 90 da or Ion er) prescri tions 43.4% Offer onl one Ian, similar to the current lans 35.0% Establish a longer waiting period before new employees are eli ible for covers e. 23.3% Split the cost of an increase in monthly premiums between the County and the emplo ees 22.9% Reduce the 52% subsidy for dependent coverage 16.1 Eliminate the subsid for dependent covers e 5.7% Other (please speci 14.8% A sampling of comments under this question included: I want to keep coverage the same or have that option and individuals should not automatically have to pay the same increase in premium especially when you compare what it is costing the county for individual coverage versus what the county pays in benefits for the different types of family coverage (usually around $5, 500 more in benefits to employees with family coverage). The individual is already getting a lot less in terms of benefits. County employees cannot afford paying any significant % of this type of increase with the taxes we pay in this county and the drastic increase in cost of living that we are experiencing without any cost of living or in line increases in the last 2 years. 11