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pnwmom

(109,645 posts) Mon Oct 16, 2023, 10:52 PM Oct 2023

Boeing retirees are being pushed into a Medicare Advantage plan run by Aetna. [View all]

Last edited Mon Oct 16, 2023, 11:36 PM - Edit history (1)

I've heard about this from people in different parts of Boeing. They've sent a letter saying that retirees will lose their current supplement plan and will automatically be put in the Medicare Advantage plan unless they find another plan and notify Boeing.

This is why Medicare Advantage has been growing so quickly, with large corporations pushing their retirees in these plans.

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Boeing retirees are being pushed into a Medicare Advantage plan run by Aetna. [View all] pnwmom Oct 2023 OP

Our local Clinic sent out letters cilla4progress Oct 2023 #1

Are you with Optimum? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2023 #11

I am a N.J. state public employee retiree. We have Aetna Med Adv. 3Hotdogs Oct 2023 #2

What I don't like is that people are being switched into it automatically pnwmom Oct 2023 #4

Advantage Plans vary as much as PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2023 #8

The point is you CHOSE to take a chance on that plan. Boeing retirees are being automatically pnwmom Oct 2023 #9

That has also happened to me. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2023 #16

$25 or $7,025? Jen206 Nov 2023 #20

I paid $25.00. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2023 #21

Don't they have the option to switch to regular Medicare? MichMan Oct 2023 #15

Only if they happened to open that single envelope and then can figure out how to act on it. pnwmom Oct 2023 #18

IBM pushed their retirees into a United Healthcare Advantage plan last year. sinkingfeeling Oct 2023 #3

Boeing employees used to have plans that rivaled the cops. The_Casual_Observer Oct 2023 #5

Not a Boeing employee, but I'd like to get "pushed" into that plan. Silent Type Oct 2023 #6

Even though that means you're getting dumped from a perfectly good Premara supplement plan? pnwmom Oct 2023 #7

Aetna Plans have two sides to them.. Postal Grunt Oct 2023 #10

Thank you for sharing this! pnwmom Oct 2023 #12

A wise choice pnw!! If it looks to good to be true it probably is PortTack Oct 2023 #14

All Medicare advantage plans are designed to bankrupt Medicare. So far it's working PortTack Oct 2023 #13

That's a pretty broad statement. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2023 #17

Here ya go PortTack Oct 2023 #19