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<blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1135664" data-attributes="member: 43436"><p>I want access to excellent, low cost health care for the remainder of my PT career with UPS. But I also recognize that soaring health care costs (nationally, premiums have doubled over the duration of the past two contracts at UPS) are a hindrance. So far, TEAMCARE appears to be a decent compromise: sans the deductible, I have an opportunity to keep my out-of-pocket costs similar to what they have been. Let's face it: does it really make sense to offer no-cost prescriptions that cost UPS $60 in claims when the employee could've had the same prescription filled at K-Mart or Costco for $10? And of course there are oodles of employees who choose to fill prescriptions they may never even use just because they're "free" - whacking the employee of a few bucks is a cheap remedy to this problem. </p><p></p><p>I've never believed UPS would maintain the current benefits -- I've always perceived them as a selling point to switch employees to a PPO from the previous traditional insurance. If you would've told me several weeks ago that hall would've negotiated a contract in which I'd gross an additional $15,000+ over the next five years while paying less than an additional $1,000 for my health insurance, I would not have believed you. Personally, I don't quite understand the pettiness over the new insurance... we need to pick our battles and considering that the new insurance affects only a minority of incumbent PTers -- most persons under 30 aren't going to care, as they rarely utilize them anyway -- I think battling for a catch-up raise for PTers, or a stronger progression wage for new hires is more worthy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagels, post: 1135664, member: 43436"] I want access to excellent, low cost health care for the remainder of my PT career with UPS. But I also recognize that soaring health care costs (nationally, premiums have doubled over the duration of the past two contracts at UPS) are a hindrance. So far, TEAMCARE appears to be a decent compromise: sans the deductible, I have an opportunity to keep my out-of-pocket costs similar to what they have been. Let's face it: does it really make sense to offer no-cost prescriptions that cost UPS $60 in claims when the employee could've had the same prescription filled at K-Mart or Costco for $10? And of course there are oodles of employees who choose to fill prescriptions they may never even use just because they're "free" - whacking the employee of a few bucks is a cheap remedy to this problem. I've never believed UPS would maintain the current benefits -- I've always perceived them as a selling point to switch employees to a PPO from the previous traditional insurance. If you would've told me several weeks ago that hall would've negotiated a contract in which I'd gross an additional $15,000+ over the next five years while paying less than an additional $1,000 for my health insurance, I would not have believed you. Personally, I don't quite understand the pettiness over the new insurance... we need to pick our battles and considering that the new insurance affects only a minority of incumbent PTers -- most persons under 30 aren't going to care, as they rarely utilize them anyway -- I think battling for a catch-up raise for PTers, or a stronger progression wage for new hires is more worthy. [/QUOTE]
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