Once you change your “pension” Medical insurance from your job, you cannot change it back, you lose the thread…
Update: This is a precursor to the cut in state jobs, as the state has and had just run out of money, especially after paying unemployment for everyone during the pandemic. It has gotten better over the last year with respect to the aggressiveness with these companies. They do have formidable options, but the security in pension benefits is much better. Security in the consistency of rates and coverage particularly.
Revision: Mar 2025: It has gotten better, but you cannot allow crappy Medicare “affiliate” companies like “Aetna” “Medicare Supplement Insurance” “Humana” to switch your insurance from your job, it is now more than ever important to keep your medical insurance from your job! Especially if you worked for the state or the government, you may still have Empire Blue Cross or Blue Shield.
Nov 2023: As the gov (or some resemblance of the gov) attempts to sabotage your health insurance offering “kickbacks” to crappy Medicare “affiliate” companies like “Aetna” “Medicare Supplement Insurance” “Humana” to switch your insurance from your job, it is now more than ever important to keep your medical insurance from your job! Especially if you worked for the state or the government, you may still have Empire Blue Cross or Blue Shield.
These crappy companies do not follow their offerings, or standby their offerings tricking these seniors in fine print. If you do not have insurance it could be a viable option, but if you do keep your medical insurance!
Medicare “affiliates” and Medicare “providers” are completely different because the affiliates (which I mention) do not have to follow the principles of Medicare, and can more loosely define their terms of service.
it is absolute carnage and absolutely disgusting that these “affiliates” were even allowed to be born, nonetheless aggressively approach vulnerable seniors. PEF retiree foundation agrees with this dispute, and reiterates my calling for your wellness. and S/O to Terri for backing me up, smart lady.
I appreciate the Democrats trying to fix a big problem from when Trump forced the “Medical Marketplace,” a oxymoron in itself, but not at the expense of uniformity and the cost of seniors that are still living today, and earned their insurance through working a state job for many years.
The way things are going in this world (or the US) what (when) will be enough? Will we start putting seniors to sleep like stray cats or dogs on the side of the street?
*This is by no means to be an attempt to slander the integrity of the state (local) or federal government. In Nov 2023 when the article was published it was written in a state of emergency with the main purpose to get the point across. The "offering kickbacks" phrase was speculative to give people an understanding, and by no means was meant to reflect the integrity of the institutions or the state (local) or federal government, it was only meant to get a point across. Revision above*
