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Jump to full article: The Tennessean, 2009-06-15
Intro: County officials hope a class to help employees quit tobacco can save them more in health-care benefit costs by letting spouses enroll.
"If statistics are true, we are going to save about $287 per year per person in claims," said Lois Miller, Rutherford County's director of insurance. There are 4,200 government and school-district workers on the health-care plan.
She noted survey results suggesting how many more would take the class if spouses could sign up.
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