When Gov Terry Branstad signed the order to allow state employees to pay 20 percent of their own health care, 95 stepped up to volunteer. However none were state lawmakers even though he asked them and department heads to do the same. He said it could save the state almost $111 million a year. State union leaders say that not having to pay health care premiums is the employees' trade-off for the lower pay in government jobs
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