Fight brewing over New Jersey budget’s quest for state health benefit savings

Fight brewing over New Jersey budget’s quest for state health benefit savings

Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin on the Assembly floor on June 30, 2025 (Dana DiFilippo | New Jersey Monitor)Another fight is brewing over New Jersey’s already beleaguered public worker health plans. A provision in the $58.8 billion budget Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Monday night calls for the state or its unions to identify $100 million of savings within the state part of the State Health Benefits Program for the first half of 2026. It spur…