Jay Rockefeller: “If I may answer the Senator, unlike the coal industry, the steel industry has a whole series of different bargained…”

“If I may answer the Senator, unlike the coal industry, the steel industry has a whole series of different bargained health benefit packages. I don't know exactly, but my guess is that right now the steel companies probably pay about 90 percent of the health care costs of the steelworkers, and the steelworkers pay 10 percent. So they have already gone from 90 percent down to 70 percent, and then they have their choice, as the Governor of Ohio, Governor Taft, indicated, of using a variety of risk pools. It could be a variety of programs, but it is not a constant figure. It could vary, and it is definitely not based upon what it is they negotiated. They have made tremendous cuts and sacrifices from the agreements they negotiated with the steel company.”