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<blockquote data-quote="The Milkman" data-source="post: 1074262" data-attributes="member: 22760"><p><strong>Re: Health Benefit Shock</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No I did not screw myself..Well before retirement age Ups was rolling out new plans..I use to have Aetna back then which was the so called Traditional plan that paid 80% of your bills after a family deductible...the plan included Dental and Eye coverage and Rx coverage..However in order to keep these same benefits I would have to pick a new medical plan... Option # 1 was Primary Care Physician Network at the time run by Cigna, Option # 2 was preferred Provider Network run at the time by BC BS... I chose Option # 2..Because we were all oriented in classes when all this came out, I believe around 2002..By chooseing option # 2 I would recieve when retired the exact same coverage as the tradional plan which included dental and eye and would have to switch to mail order RX service...If I did not select option 1 or 2 , and kept my Traditional plan that I had for about 20 yrs I would lose dental and eyecare upon retirement, and you also had to be on this "NEW" plan at least 4 years prior to your retirement. So thats why many switched to enhance the retirement coverage spelled out to us many years before we retired. Hope this explains it for ya</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Milkman, post: 1074262, member: 22760"] [b]Re: Health Benefit Shock[/b] No I did not screw myself..Well before retirement age Ups was rolling out new plans..I use to have Aetna back then which was the so called Traditional plan that paid 80% of your bills after a family deductible...the plan included Dental and Eye coverage and Rx coverage..However in order to keep these same benefits I would have to pick a new medical plan... Option # 1 was Primary Care Physician Network at the time run by Cigna, Option # 2 was preferred Provider Network run at the time by BC BS... I chose Option # 2..Because we were all oriented in classes when all this came out, I believe around 2002..By chooseing option # 2 I would recieve when retired the exact same coverage as the tradional plan which included dental and eye and would have to switch to mail order RX service...If I did not select option 1 or 2 , and kept my Traditional plan that I had for about 20 yrs I would lose dental and eyecare upon retirement, and you also had to be on this "NEW" plan at least 4 years prior to your retirement. So thats why many switched to enhance the retirement coverage spelled out to us many years before we retired. Hope this explains it for ya [/QUOTE]
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