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Insurance companies fail to bid on pooled health insurance plans for Jackson ... The Jackson Citizen Patriot MLive.com

24.05.10

Insurance companies fail to bid on pooled health insurance plans for Jackson schools By Bob Wheaton | Jackson Citizen Patriot May 24, 2010, 6:00AM Something unexpected happened when Jackson County’s public school districts and Jackson Community College sought bids for pooled health insurance coverage.

No insurers would bid.

The local efforts could be a test case about the impact of a 2007 state law that attempted to increase the number of school insurance pools and bring more competition.

“Basically, what we learned was that none of the insurance companies that were doing business in Michigan that were contacted by about eight or 10 brokers would provide bids for us to purchase as a group,” said Catherine Brechtelsbauer, director of human resources and legal services for the Jackson County Intermediate School District .

Don Wotruba, deputy director for the Michigan Association of School Boards , said that since the 2007 law passed, the

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