newtothegame
10-28-2010, 11:16 PM
Yep mosty....I can see how those contracts are so valueable....I mean we all got to have our cosmetic surgery...! Amazingly, some buffoon signed and agreed to it. No wonder NY has problems!
Buffalo, N.Y. Teachers Spend $9M in Taxpayer Cash in '09 on Cosmetic Surgery
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Buffalo teachers left taxpayers on the hook for nearly $9 million worth of cosmetic surgery last year, according to the state-appointed authority overseeing public school finances.
The Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority found that last year's costs for elective procedures such as chemical peels and other skin treatments were up $8 million over 2004's $1 million tab for cosmetic surgery.
The procedures, provided under the teachers' union contract, accounted for 9 percent of the district's total spending on health insurance benefits for employees and retirees, The Buffalo News reported Thursday.
About 10,000 school employees are eligible for the benefit. District officials said teachers or their dependents accounted for 90 percent of the approximately 500 people who received cosmetic surgery last year.
Barbara J. Smith, the district's chief financial officer, said those 500 people represent less than 2 percent of those covered by health insurance
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(http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/28/buffalo-ny-teachers-spend-m-taxpayer-cash-cosmetic-surgery/?test=latestnews#)through the district -- a figure she estimated works out to an average of nearly $18,000 in elective procedures last year per employee who used the benefit.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/28/buffalo-ny-teachers-spend-m-taxpayer-cash-cosmetic-surgery/?test=latestnews
Buffalo, N.Y. Teachers Spend $9M in Taxpayer Cash in '09 on Cosmetic Surgery
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Buffalo teachers left taxpayers on the hook for nearly $9 million worth of cosmetic surgery last year, according to the state-appointed authority overseeing public school finances.
The Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority found that last year's costs for elective procedures such as chemical peels and other skin treatments were up $8 million over 2004's $1 million tab for cosmetic surgery.
The procedures, provided under the teachers' union contract, accounted for 9 percent of the district's total spending on health insurance benefits for employees and retirees, The Buffalo News reported Thursday.
About 10,000 school employees are eligible for the benefit. District officials said teachers or their dependents accounted for 90 percent of the approximately 500 people who received cosmetic surgery last year.
Barbara J. Smith, the district's chief financial officer, said those 500 people represent less than 2 percent of those covered by health insurance
http://kona.kontera.com/javascript/lib/imgs/grey_loader.gif
(http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/28/buffalo-ny-teachers-spend-m-taxpayer-cash-cosmetic-surgery/?test=latestnews#)through the district -- a figure she estimated works out to an average of nearly $18,000 in elective procedures last year per employee who used the benefit.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/28/buffalo-ny-teachers-spend-m-taxpayer-cash-cosmetic-surgery/?test=latestnews