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Keshav Bhat
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According to Bill Matthews, of UAW Local 23, Indiana is home to about 100,000 hourly UAW retirees & all of them have been affected by the change.
The Star described the plight of one retiree who has diabetes and needs regular eye examinations. David Ehman had his eyes checked in the past year, so he cannot make one more covered visit to his optometrist. The last visit he and his wife made to the eye doctor, with coverage, she left with new eyeglasses and he with a fresh set of contact lenses for a combined bill of nearly $800. Now, he said, he will have to shop around. Ehman stated, “The insurance thing really puts a bind on you. You start having to decide, how much is your health worth? “
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1 comments:
Kevshav,
Thank you for this important post. As people working in America are facing healthcare coverage issues in light of the troubled economy, vision care is more and more important. A cost-savings option for retirees is the VSP Individual Plan. 49% of subscribers are over age 55 and 28% are retired.
http://www.vsp.com/prospective/html/ip-launch.jsp
A comprehensive eye exam can reveal signs of undiagnosed diseases including diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Recent studies by VSP show that 61 percent of working adults in America have an annual eye exam, while 21 percent have an annual physical with a primary care physician.
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