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Originally Posted by baddog
huh? I know for fact my dad always had group insurance for us when we were growing up, and I was out of the house for at least 5 years by the mid-70's.
He did not have a great paying job, but he was a union member and that was a primary benefit of every union my extended family was a member of.
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Unions are how many of the group insurance plans for other workers started so you were fortunate. Blue Cross didn't merge with Blue Shield until the early 80s. Before you had two policies...I think Cross was for doctors and shield was for hospitals. Before this time our health care was so cheap not many people carried anything except for an indemnity policy that would pay cash benefits in case of scheduled accidents/illnesses.