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Insurance is no cost at all to my husband

Posted By: Lynette on 2007-03-25
In Reply to: PA health insurance benefits - anon

and me thru teamsters, $20.00 copay when going to the doctor, PTO. That is the good part- now the bad- if he should die before me, no insurance for me. Well, since I am 10 years older, will possibly have Medicare before him, who knows??


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