Effective Jan. 1, 2013 Goodyear will no longer offer company-sponsored group health plan for Medicare-eligible retirees (www.extendhealth.com/goodyear).
As a result Goodyear will change the way Medicare-eligible retirees and their Medicare-eligible covered dependents receive supplemental health care coverage.
Instead of receiving your coverage through Goodyear’s retirees group plan you will be able to chose from a selection of individual plans from the private sector.
This means my wife and I, who have been covered under Goodyear insurance for over 47 years and my mother covered over 90 years will lose our medical insurance. We can thank President Obama for losing the Goodyear health plan. Under Obamacare, it will be less expensive to drop the health plan and pay the penalty (tax). Goodyear will save millions of dollars by making this move.
Obamacare goes into effect Jan. 1, 2014. In 2013 employers and unions will be making decisions to get out of the health care business. In doing so they can save a lot of money.
Why do you think they made Obamacare affective after the 2012 election?
Jack Atkinson
Swanton
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Freedom isn’t exactly what he thinks it is
In the June 2 Times-News, R. Steele Selby (“Just how free are we?) defines freedom as “the capacity to do whatever he or she wants to do” and asserts that this definition is “most likely nearly universal.”
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What Maryland calls the Fair Share Act isn’t fair at all
The Fair Share Act was passed in 2009. This law allowed for service fees to be part of the collective bargaining process.
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We have lots to show for our education dollars
I would like to take this opportunity to respond to Judith Weller’s latest anti-education diatribe, “The money they already have isn’t being spent wisely,” (June 3).
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Western Md. Veterans continues its mission
My name is Dan Brashear, I am the founder and director of Western Maryland Veterans.
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Maybe the cyclists and casino workers should be armed
Again, unfortunately I have to remind Don Carns Jr. of Beans Cove, Pa., on his latest repeatedly inaccurate letter published June 10 in the Cumberland Times-News (“Township is nothing like either Pittsburgh or Philadelphia”).
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Let’s all kick in $1 to help save Frostburg’s Palace Theatre
As a former resident, I have many fond memories of the Palace Theatre (“Theater wall crumbles: Palace exterior collapses, unfit for entry: officials,” June 6 Times-News, Page 1A).
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Develop the waterway
Since the debate over removing the dam started about four years ago, I have been concerned about the effect the dam removal would have on the area’s welfare.
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Living center marks national nursing assistants week
Golden Living Center will join in the celebrations honoring the hundreds of thousands of nursing assistants across the country during National Nursing Assistants Week, June 13-20.
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West Virginia, Johnny Cash, coal miners honored on stamps
While this most likely won’t fall under the category of the most earth-shattering letter to the editor you will read today, it is still big doings for those of us here at the U.S. Postal Service.
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If you build a whitewater play spot, they will come
Regarding “River Project Prospects: Experts reveal benefits, challenges at Allegany Museum” (June 7 Times-News, Page 1A):
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