"Some Cabell Huntington Hospital retirees and their families are speaking out after receiving a letter stating their supplemental Medicare insurance benefit will be terminated at the end of March." herald-dispatch.com/news/cabell-hu…
“I may not have retired early if I knew there was a chance I would have to start paying for bridge coverage and then lose my supplemental benefits after that,” Doss said."
“I was a dedicated employee for over 30 years and based my retirement budget on this benefit. Now that I am older, sicker and on fixed income, this benefit is suddenly gone. I have gone from paying nothing to paying $7,500 for insurance.”
"Joyce Gibson, spokesperson with SEIU District 1199, the union that now represents nurses and some other hospital employees, called the hospital’s decision “shameful.”
"We currently represent 1,000 employees also in the service and maintenance unit, who have had the union for over 45 years at Cabell Huntington Hospital. Their contract protected their retirees and they still have the supplemental insurance for life.”
“These retirees ran and built that hospital,” she said. “We cared about each other, our patients and the community, so to be treated this way by this corporation is just so hurtful and wrong.”
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