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As towns save, workers fear health care hikes

By Jennette Barnes

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  December 25, 2011

Communities south of Boston are getting ready to cut their health insurance costs, but public employees worry the changes will shift those costs to workers. Pembroke and Marshfield are among those that have adopted a 2011 municipal health insurance law that allows local governments to change workers’ deductibles and co-payments outside the collective bargaining process. Plymouth has adopted a portion of the law, but not all of it.

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