[GreenKeys] Experience on this list

[Don Robert House]

Jack,

Most phone company employees now have to contribute something towards  
their health care plan.
Union members pay the least amount.  Management pays A LOT.
When I retired from Ameritech in 1996 I was promised free health care  
for the rest of my life.
We were paying $400 a month for a second rate plan up until both my  
wife and I became eligible for Medicare.
We now have our HMO as a supplement to Medicare.  Due to massive  
clerical errors by at&t's contractor my
wife has been dropped from the plan three times.  Our retirees  
association fights to keep our benefits.
It gets quite complicated.  Because I am Medicare primary, at&t sends  
me a rebate check every month for $45.
I use that to pay my wife's Medicare premium as she is receiving her  
pension from a teachers retirement plan.

Anyone or their spouse who is going to be 65 soon, I would recommend  
arranging for a free consultation at
your local major hospital with a qualified counsellor.

Sorry to be off topic again.

Don
K9TTY

On 17 Jun 2009, at 2:19 PM, Don Cunningham wrote:

Man, are you right, Jack.  I have two, good experienced hands (also  
hams)
that were FORCED to retire early or lose all the benefits they had  
accrued.
You think it was bad, just wait!!  I had to show the last one out here  
in
the country where all the pedestals were!!!  I happened to have missed  
one
in the poison ivy and poison oak, so IF I ever have to get them out  
again,
I'll be sure to point it out for his pleasure, HI HI.
73,

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To: "Larry Tighe" <larryradio at worldnet.att.net>; <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net 
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Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Experience on this list


> My experience with the new species of "telephone man" is that the  
> customer
> better know
> what he needs and how it works....the "telephone man" doesn't have a  
> clue
> (but he does get
> his medical benefits for free...).
>
>
> -------------- Original message from "Larry Tighe"
> <larryradio at worldnet.att.net>: --------------
>
>
>> Endless problems with my DSL circuit down at the shore house. Telco  
>> had
>> been there numerous times.
>>
>> I remembered someone on this greenkeys saying his drop from the  
>> pole to
>> the
>> house was two tubes of green powder....I asked the repairman to  
>> replace
>> the
>> drop. Lots of green powder there too.
>>
>> I wonder how much longer it would've taken had it not been for that
>> sharing
>> of info on this list.
>>
>> Thanks to whoever it was.
>>
>> lar
>> Larry
>> K2JIA
>> www.antiquetelephone.com
>>
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