SurelySerious

Yeah, it’s a significant risk for anyone requiring those surgeries or an incredible increase in cost, i.e. a pay cut. APA loves to sit there and say how the company can’t do any better or they said “no” instead of fighting for better or figuring out how to improve things for the members. Case in point, two APA cheerleaders apologizing for the company making a unilateral benefits cut as acceptable. Get ed, we deserve better. ALPA.

The company just took tens of thousands of dollars from anyone who needs these surgeries. It’s the same apathetic defeatist response I got from my rep, and and this is indeed the prevailing sentiment of APA that you’re espousing. Getting beaten by the company and saying “well it could be worse” is the type of Stockholm syndrome I didn’t see at ALPA, to include a having an actual strategic plan for negotiating. Not impressed with the combination of Mark Meyers/whimsical board of 20 equal Bobs that are at odds with the day to day President. It’s a recipe for this disservice to the members.

Is BCBS administering the plans, or are they not? Because if they’re not anymore to determine what is in and out of network, that’s a pretty serious change. If APA is not going to have the foresight to anticipate these backhanded efforts, they could at least have the balls to fight them.

It’s not half the story. The association capitulated that not using the roulette of lowest bidder Surgery Plus was still out of network and could cost member tens of thousands for using a reputable doctor that would otherwise be in-network under the BCBS administered plans. So APA gave up and called the loss a win. A-L-P-A.

So… provide means to migrate, make press releases to please not migrate…profit?

No, but you still have to go out and win the games. And by golly they survived a snowball barrage.

American decided to mandate the use of a bargain surgery marketplace network for all joint and spine surgeries, usurping the in/out-of-network inherent to the plan as a cost cutting measure after the new contract. Gotta watch these nerds like a hawk.

Not in Curtis LeMay’s SAC: Fuel dump? Best I can do is speed brakes and gear down.

Interesting.

As in a second front?

Goes on the resume without the pesky two years of work.

-Clout pirates

The bomber will always get through!

“Different” sells these days in any art or story more than the work or content itself, so not entirely surprising.

What could go wrong?

What his followers don’t realize at this point is he’s out there “campaigning” to fundraise for his defense fund- normal ego stroking aside.

FIFY. And it tracks since you ignore pretty much all other fact in favor of your bloviated opinions, but they’re definitely important since you’re clearly the only one of authority who could possibly be correct.

The subtext is (since you’re unlikely to understand it): you’re not nearly as important as you think you are

That time of transition may have been an important time to you, but I’m probably not the only one who just reads “gearpig” whenever you post instead of “gearhog.” Honestly hadn’t noticed. Unaffiliated with Best, just saying in general.

And no one’s sure what a NAF does.

Need to earn my opr bullet: then we’ll transfer it to the Space Force so it can be their red headed stepchild.

There’s an extensive mental health evaluation.

I’ve met that one. Dream isn’t wrong.

Yeah, guess what I’m saying is agreeing that the nominating is being done along the lines of immutable characteristics. The recommendation for CNO from Austin was Paparo, and the decision was made by the office of the President for another candidate with seemingly no better qualifications than Paparo other than gender.