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Washington ----- Original Message ----- From: "(Stacey) (Collins)" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 11:25 PM Subject: Re: Insurance Question > In a message dated 12/22/2006 11:02:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > Hi. I hope everyone is having a happy holiday. I peeked at one of my > presents early, a package from my insurance company, and found a lump of > coal. > Effective Jan 1st they are discontinuing the insurance plan I am on. > However > they are offering a new plan "to better serve me". Reading the tiny, > tiny > fine print I discovered that my annual maximum out of pocket is going > from > $2,500 per person in the family to a total of $9,500 for the group with > no > individual allocation. This of course means I am going to pay and pay. > Then I > noticed that the annual maximum benefit for prescription drugs is going > from > $5,000 down to $3,000. This means about August I will be out of benefit > for the > year. Here is my problem. I am 56 years old.....to young for medicare > or > medicaid I believe. I am still working (as best as I can) and therefore > don't > qualify for the drug company assistance programs because I have medical > insurance such as it is. I don't qualify for welfare as I scrape by each > month. > I pay a staggering $1,270 per month for insurance !!! for a family of > four....I am a 1099 contract employee so basically self employed. I just > returned > from Rite Aid drugstore where I spent over $650. And I have a couple > more > to fill next week. Does anyone have any guidance for me? So far in > brainstorming the best plan I've come up > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > with is win that pesky lottery........help !!! Thank you........Dan > > > HHMMM. What State? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn