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For you TransTechers complaining below, did you get the email - Kitty Katz

Posted: Jan 07, 2010

that came out today explaining the insurance coverage and the costs? BCBS apparently uses PHCS for the employees who dont live in Michigan. I have actually heard of PHCS and its a huge network.

My insurance cost didn't go up with this change, so I am not sure why anyone else's would have unless you selected a higher level of coverage than you had before.

Kudos to TT for sending this emai out and explaining and shame on those of you who are only here to bash without knowing all the facts.

And BTW, would you have rather taken a 46% rate increase? - Kitty again

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I didn't think so!

TT Insurance - RubySoho

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My monthly premium only went up about $14 with the new plan, and I just paid $10 for a prescription that cost me $20 with the BCBS plan; what I saved on that one prescription just about made up the difference in cost of the new plan.

The plan I signed up for is $10 LESS for office visits and $10 LESS per prescription; I see the doctor once a month and have 3 monthly prescriptions, so the savings for me with the new plan are immediate.

I applaud TT for making the transition to the new plan a simple, pain-free process, as well as their looking out for their MTs. I understand Debbie took one look at the BCBS proposal for 2010 and the costs had skyrocketed and she refused to accept it and another plan to save us money was found.

In times when most MTSOs are actually cutting loose their MTs and making them ICs with NO benefits, I consider TT to be a class act.

I wasn't bashing. I was asking serious questions. - TTr-3 years

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I'm glad they finally explained it. Now, I wish I'd get my card. Still nothing. I'd like to know when this insurance was to go into effect and who the providers are in my area. I got my vision card, that's it.

Do you really think this is the appropriate place to ask questions? - Kitty II

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Why come to this board and stir the pot when you could have just as easily called or emailed the office?

I did. No reply last week. - TTr-3 years

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Finally got some info this week. Hey, I get a wee bit stressed when I don't get cards or any info. That's why I asked questions.

The TT board never has anyone on it so it would have been a waste to go there.

I think some of us TT'ers are just a little fed up... - pl

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...with having taken a roughly half-our-salary pay cut, having been forced to do about 90% VR with no say in the matter, at half the pay per line. That will tend to make one...expect the worst.

Do you really think that this is something that is happening just at TT? - Nuther TTer

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I can guarantee you that this is an issue with every MTSO out there, or at least those that are large and growing. It's just a change in our industry that every company that wants to survive must do.

true, but what I mean is that we have the right to say something about it. - pl

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I also think that not every company has gone from 50-50 VR/traditional to 90% VR overnight with no recourse for the transcriptionists and no easing into it--just overnight.

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