IFF: $458K For 4 Exchange Workers
Just four months after the state Legislature and Gov. Butch Otter created an Obamacare state insurance
exchange, it’s become a lot clearer why the exchange backers didn’t want this to be called a state government agency. They opted instead to claim it’s an “independent body, corporate and politic.” They scoff when I refer to the exchange as a “government agency.” The reason they balked at the “state agency” label is already the exchange has piled up a payroll of about half a million dollars for just four employees. And the hiring is likely to continue for the remainder of the year. But it’s not just the hiring that is concerning; it’s the amount of money being paid to the employees. I’d previously noted that the way in which Amy Dowd, executive director of the exchange, was hired is questionable; minus a public national search, the exchange board hired Dowd for $175,000/
Wayne Hoffman
, Idaho Freedom Foundation.
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