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<blockquote data-quote="OffRoutesPay" data-source="post: 1173306" data-attributes="member: 47531">Unlike most people here I made phone calls and even spoke to someone that ran on Howard&#039;s slate.It never went to arbitration because all the trustees agreed on Tim&#039;s plan to fix the medical. Howard wasn&#039;t going to let it go to arbitration either he had something written up with his lawyers that was going to go in effect after the election. This was in the hands of the fund lawyers, Howards plan was to give up 25 and out, co-pays the same as now all retirees would have a 200 dollars hospital co-pay no matter what. The lawyers from the fund gave this to Tim, he didnt want to loss 25 and out so what he did was change magnacare to bluecross retiree go up 10 percent until the fund it a curtain months reserve. These were changes that had to be made to stop it from going to arbitration or the plan was looking at 40 and 50 dollar co-pays because thats how messed up the fund was. All of the documents were OK&#039;d by Howard and Bill. Also remember what the fund lawyer said at a GMM that Howard had a meeting set up the day after the vote count to meet with her to OK the changes and after Howard lost the meeting was canceled. Tim walks in to the hall and Howard says &quot;by the way the medical is in arbitration&quot; every thing had to be done in 10 days.Even the person that ran with Row A said he could not believe how messed up the medical was and that NO one on Row A even told him. It was more important to get re-elected.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OffRoutesPay, post: 1173306, member: 47531"] Unlike most people here I made phone calls and even spoke to someone that ran on Howard's slate. It never went to arbitration because all the trustees agreed on Tim's plan to fix the medical. Howard wasn't going to let it go to arbitration either he had something written up with his lawyers that was going to go in effect after the election. This was in the hands of the fund lawyers, Howards plan was to give up 25 and out, co-pays the same as now all retirees would have a 200 dollars hospital co-pay no matter what. The lawyers from the fund gave this to Tim, he didnt want to loss 25 and out so what he did was change magnacare to bluecross retiree go up 10 percent until the fund it a curtain months reserve. These were changes that had to be made to stop it from going to arbitration or the plan was looking at 40 and 50 dollar co-pays because thats how messed up the fund was. All of the documents were OK'd by Howard and Bill. Also remember what the fund lawyer said at a GMM that Howard had a meeting set up the day after the vote count to meet with her to OK the changes and after Howard lost the meeting was canceled. Tim walks in to the hall and Howard says "by the way the medical is in arbitration" every thing had to be done in 10 days. Even the person that ran with Row A said he could not believe how messed up the medical was and that NO one on Row A even told him. It was more important to get re-elected. [/QUOTE]

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