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Recent Posts
- Today’s the Day
- PEIA PLANS Massive copays hikes, Loss of coverge for hundreds medicines
- Monday Feb.17 President’s Day Rally for WVAFSCME and others (all welcome)
- Retiree lobby day is Wed. Jan 20. 2010. If you can’t attend please send emails Wed. or any other day this week.
- PEIA proposes outrageous premium increases and benefit changes -Nov. 2009
- Nov. 2009 PEIA proposes 60% premium increases over 5 years and 5% benefits cuts (this year)
- What’s New; PEIA Takes Away More Benefits
- Dismantling of PEIA Continues: Problems with PEIA Presentation
- NEED FOR JOINT TASK GROUP
- WE’RE NOT DYING FAST ENOUGH !!!!!
- Board Votes on Premiums – AFT Responds
- Old 2007-Angry Retirees Question PEIA Changes
- WVEA Angered by Finance Board Actions FY 2010 adopted plan
- MU Faculty Senate Resolution Regarding PEIA
- PEIA board should take hard look at premium hike (Kaiser study info)
A Newest Articles and Link June/July 2009
Coventry (parent company of Medicare Advantra and of Carelink, PEIA's Director's former employer)
Elected Officials
- CONTACT The “BIG SEVEN”
- JWV Joint Standing Committee on Pensions and Retirement – Interim
- PEIA, Seniors and Long Term Care – WV Legislature Interim Select Committee
- U.S. Represenative Nick Rahall
- U.S. Representative Alan B. Mollohan
- U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller
- U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd
- WV Delegates
- WV Senators
- WVEA Quick List to CONTACT YOUR SENATORS AND DELEGATES
Health Care
Lobby days & How You Can Help
Media
Medicare Advantage Concerns
- **** Senate votes to reign in private Medicare
- ***The problem with Medicare Advantage By Maggie Mahar
- 15 Reasons Why the 2003 Medicare Law Fails Seniors
- 50plus:The unspoken disadvantages of Medicare ‘Advantage’
- A Windfall for Insurers; Downfall for Beneficiaries
- AFSCME Testimony on Medicare Advantage -David R. Fillman, Exe. Dir. Council 13
- Considerations Before Choosing a Medicare Advantage Plan
- Coventry Health Care CEO Dale B. Wolf Receives $11.2M in Compensation in 2007
- Coventry Healthcare gets most complaints in Georgia
- Despite unfair subsidies, PRIVATE MEDICARE PLANS DO NOT OFFER BETTER HEALTH OUTCOMES
- For Recipients of Medicare, the Hard Sell
- GAO Audit Shows Insurers Benefiting Excessively from Medicare Advantage
- Llink to Numerous Articles about Disavantages of Medicare Advantage
- Medicare Advantage Plans Costing Many Seniors More
- Medicare Advantage Private Insurer Subsidies
- Medicare Disadvantage
- Medicare is Complicated – reprint from MedicareRights.org (Discusses concerns and links to advocay group)
- Medicare Rights Center Consumer Hotline: 1-800-333-4114 Helps with your rights & problems
- Open Letter to Retirees
- Search on Medicare Advantage
- State Groups Join Doctors in Suing Insurers
- Taking Note: The Trouble With Medicare Advantage
- The Medicare Privatization Scam
- The problem with Medicare Advantage – The Health Care Blog
Newspaper Articles
Older articles prior to Sept. 2008
Other Blogs Comment on PEIA
PEIA
- ***The problem with Medicare Advantage By Maggie Mahar
- Coventry Health Care Selected by the State of West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency to Provide Retiree Health Benefits
- PEIA – WVEA President’s Blog By WVEA President Dale Lee- will be there voicing your concerns. Let me remind you to continue to email the Governor and your legislators.
- PEIA 2008 Public Hearing Presentation
- PEIA Comprehensive Annual Financial Report 2007
- PEIA Finace Board Members
- Possible PEIA Increases – Resolution by WVU Faculty Senate – Site and Comments
- Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA)
- WV Code has Salary of PEIA director raised just a few months before he was hired
Retirees
Shenanigans
- A gift of good news from 2007 (references PEW)
- A Windfall for Insurers; Downfall for Beneficiaries
- AFSCME Testimony on Medicare Advantage -David R. Fillman, Exe. Dir. Council 13
- ‘We sink or swim with everyone else’
- Billions-Fossil Fools Day!- Lunch time as usual was interrupted in the Capitol
- Coventry Health Care CEO Dale B. Wolf Receives $11.2M in Compensation in 2007
- Coventry Healthcare gets most complaints in Georgia
- Families Suing Mylan For Medication Mistake (Note: Heather Manchin Bresch’s employer)
- GAO Audit Shows Insurers Benefiting Excessively from Medicare Advantage
- Governor Appoints Ted Cheatham To Serve As PEIA Director – News Release Sep 22, 2006
- Is WV Governor Joe Manchin A Target In Federal Investigation??
- Manchino the Magnificent! The great magician thrills his audience
- Parties, galas and days off (listing of plane trips)
- PEIA director upholds contract award (Note: Coventry is parent company of his own former employer)
- PEIA should hold McGraw responsible for retirees’ pain – Proceeds from OxyContin settlement not paid to PEIA
- Squawk boxes rewired/highest-paid state employees/PEIA director Ted Cheatham…$138,000)
- State Groups Join Doctors in Suing Insurers
- WV Code 6-7-2a shows PEIA director salary/compare to squawk box link
Unions
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