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Conference quokka::non_custodial_parents

Title:Welcome to the Non-Custodial Parents Conference
Notice:Please read 1.* before writing anything
Moderator:MIASYS::HETRICK
Created:Sun Feb 25 1990
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:420
Total number of notes:4370

181.0. "Poll on "Insurance Mandated"" by CSC32::K_JACKSON (VTX - Have server, will travel) Thu Nov 21 1991 10:15

  It has been suggested that a poll be conducted of NCP's who are required
  to pay for medical insurance for their children, when the children reside
  in another state, making it impossible for the NCP to join a local HMO 
  group, thus being forced to stay on DMP II (John Hancock)

  This information will only be used to indicate how many employees will
  be impacted by the new rate increase.  Please do not debate the issue
  in this note.  Feel free to debate in note 180, "Discriminatory Health Care".

  If you do not wish to make your situation public, then feel free to send
  me mail and I will tally your information into the poll anonmynously.

  Also, if you know of individuals who do not read this conference but are
  in this situation then feel free to have them send me mail.


  Thanks,

  Kenn
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181.1Add me!RIPPLE::KENNEDY_KAThu Nov 21 1991 10:555
    Kenn,
    You can add me to the list.  I am going with the HMO elect but I will
    still have to pay the $300.00 deductible and 30% for him. 
    
    Karen
181.22B::ZAHAREEMichael W. Zaharee, ULTRIX EngineeringThu Nov 21 1991 13:275
    re .0:
    
    I'm in this situation.
    
    - M
181.3TERZA::ZANEfor who you areThu Nov 21 1991 13:5411
   Currently, I'm not paying insurance for my kids.  But I have in the past. 
   In fact, my ex took over the insurance just before all these "options"
   were given to us last year.

   Things can always change, so I'm very much interested in this.

   What can I do to help?


   							Terza

181.4another satisfied customerRMDSRV::BURTTon a journey in search of .....Thu Nov 21 1991 18:315
    ADD ME TO THIS LIST ... I'M CHANGING TO HMO COLORADO SINCE MY EX JUST
    MOVED TO DENVER ... IF SHE WAS STILL OUT OF STATE I'D BE FORCED TO TAKE
    THE 59/WK
    
    GARY
181.5another one.CCIIS1::ZAGAMEFri Nov 22 1991 11:073
    Add me to the list....
    
    - Steve
181.6AIMHI::RAUHHome of The Cruel SpaFri Nov 22 1991 11:542
    Although I have custody and pay for our health care. I stilll wish to
    go on record as voting for this.
181.7Another one.IMOKAY::wagonerFri Nov 22 1991 11:584
When my wife was working for DEC I had to pay for a policy just for the
kids, because I was covered under JH.

-darryl
181.8Maybe we can start our own group policy.COMET::SUDKAMPTunneling through time to a better life.Fri Nov 22 1991 13:546
    
    Count me in also. I have one who will be going to college in one state
    and one the "x" may move anywhere.
    
    Greg
    
181.9Could be faced with it againKAHALA::JOHNSON_LLeslie Ann JohnsonFri Nov 22 1991 15:1811
I think we may have worked out our situation - the ex's husband (also a 
DEC employee) will carry the kids on his HMO out there, we will carry the 
kids on our HMO here.  And we'll pay the out-of-pocket expenses.  Have to
get it all in writing first though.  But should anything change, we could
very well be back to the (JH)DMP $$$$$ dilemna again.

I spoke to my personnel rep who said DEC was aware of the problem and there
were going to be some personnel meetings after the end of the open enrollment 
period to discuss these types of issues.

Leslie    
181.10'nother one!KYOA::BOYNTONMon Nov 25 1991 11:454
    I'm in this situation, too.  I will be relocating to Santa Clara, CA,
    which is in a high rate DMP district, while my kids are in Dallas,
    TX, a low-rate DMP district.   I'm under a court order to maintain
    JH-type coverage for the children.  
181.11tony bean24690::BEANAttila the Hun was a LIBERAL!Tue Nov 26 1991 12:4214
    I'm in this situation also.  I'm composing a letter to Fran Bastien
    (ICS::BASTIEN) who is with U.S. Benefits.  I'm not sure yet what his
    role is with that group, but he's the one our PSA suggested I contact.
    
    By the way.  My kids live in San Antonio, Texas.  THere are NO HMOs
    offered there by the DEC plans.  
    
    In San Antonio, DMP-1 costs $0.00/$9.79 (individual/family) and DMP-2
    costs $5.52/$23.92.   
    
    Here in PKO,  DMP-1 costs $16.34/$44.35 and DMP-2 costs $21.98/59.00
    and there are five HMOs offered plus the HMO Elect.
    
    tony
181.12Ya just try to get used to it...PROD01::GSALOISThe more I know the less I understandWed Nov 27 1991 12:098
Count me in also!

Digital Plan II	here in MA...

	child lives in CT

Gene
181.13add my nameJENEVR::PAIGEWed Nov 27 1991 12:486
 You can put my name on the list, we both currently live in the
same are but that is likely to change.

Mick

181.14Me too\CSC32::S_SCHWEINWed Nov 27 1991 18:026
    You can count me on the list
    
    Steve Schwein
    csc32::s_schwein
    dtn 592-5699
    
181.15yet another...CSC32::R_MCBRIDEthis LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN...Wed Dec 11 1991 11:191
    Me too. (B^(
181.16Watch out, if you are covering an ex-spouse...MROA::DUPUISWed Dec 27 1995 09:0734
    I posted this in the DIGITAL notefile, but thought that this might be
    appropriate in here as well.....
    
    Okay I have a twist on this....I noticed right away that I had no
    dependants listed when I received my statement, so I called benefits
    express and they explain to me that all my dependants were covered but
    to go ahead and give her the information and she would update the
    system.  I gave her my children and my exhusband, who according to my
    divorce agreement I cover him until it becomes an added expense.  The
    woman took the info and I thought I was all set. WRONG, two days later
    I get a call from benefits express telling me that Digital does not
    allow coverage of ex-spouses, I asked since when and she said that she
    needed me to fax her a copy of my divorce agreement where it says I
    will cover him, so I did so.  A week later, I get an updated sheet and
    it lists my daughters but not my x.  I call benefits express and she
    tells me that he is showing in the system that the previous woman must
    not have hit the right button to release the information, but she would
    go ahead and process it and I would receive a new statement.  I
    received a new statement and he was listed so I thought everything was
    fine, WRONG again, last night their was mail from Fallon Clinic
    addressed to my x at my address so I opened it and it tells him that
    they (Fallon) received a request from DIGITAL (under my policy) to
    terminate him health coverage effective the first of the year.  So now
    I have to wait until 9am to find out what is going on.  Has anyone else
    run into this problem????
    
    If I have to pay the price for family coverage and they are not going
    to reduce my rate for not having a spouse, why isn't he covered??????
    
    Why have they been paying for the past three years and why have I never
    been notified that Digital was changing it's policy??????
    
    Thanks,
    Roberta