More than a dozen people voiced their concerns over the latest proposed health insurance rate hikes for West Virginia state employees during a public hearing in Charleston, West Virginia, Thursday evening.

Seventeen people spoke during a two-hour public hearing held by the Public Employees Insurance Agency finance board at the Culture Center. Health

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Most called on state lawmakers to work with the PEIA board to find a solution for state employees’ rising health insurance costs.

“I’m asking you: let’s have these conversations,” Joe White, executive director of the West Virginia School Service Personnel Association, told the PEIA finance board. “This can be fixed. That

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