Originally Posted by
AllenAllert
Do you every go outside the cave? Obamacare has no direct or indirect impact on you over 65 retired people.
Medicare is paid by all people on Social Security and over 65. When you speak of supplemental insurance, there are many choices to be made depending on your perceived need and ability to pay. It sounds like you're staying with the United policy that brings you up to the protection of the active employee. If anything, it is the active employees subsidizing you a retiree.
You really need to talk to other retirees or maybe a R&I guy that will give you the time. There is a wealth of knowledge/experiences to be had you just need to ask the right people. How far past 65 are you?
Originally Posted by
Old UCAL CA
Supplementals are group products and open market, paid by the individual in addition to medicare. You bet your sweet, ignorant a** Obamacare affects the price of the existing premium...those insurance companies are now required federally to make a market for high risk individuals and families. You are truly an idiot.
You ?SIR? really need to talk to other retired pilots and not just the local Joe down at the corner bar. United had already covered most if not all the of the mandated coverage of Obamacare. Go back and point to the year you had a bump in premiums as a result of Obamacare. For most of the increases, it's been administration cost that has driven the relatively small increases.
Medicare has been around a long time before Obamacare. If you would, please tell us what year you got a Medicare premium bump due to Obamacare?
As far as the Supplemental policies offered by United they were and are designed to offer coverage when combined with Medicare to make it similar to active employees.
You should at least read or watch the information Greene has put out concerning retirement. If you can't the find ALPA retirement video on Skynet/Flyingtogether post back and I'll get a link for you. There may even be a power-point presentation out there.
I really mean no disrespect but YOU ARE RETIRED. Maybe you should spend more time learning how to retire.