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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1101044" data-attributes="member: 43436">How bout forcing us (PTers) to give back that hourly premium, gut our benefits (as proposed ... no details) & then charge us $90/week?  A 30% direct pay cut for me, plus additional monies spent on health care.Even if an agreement is reach, I expect my benefits to be somewhat diluted.  E.g. office visits go from $10 to $20, prescriptions go from $0 to $5 (generic)/$10 (non-generic); $250 per person deductible (currently $0).  This will heavily lower the company's cost, since it will prevent many cash-strapped PTers from going to the doctor's unless it's absolutely necessary.  I'd be shocked if (something like) this doesn't happen, and get called a victory.</blockquote>