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By Kathy Barks Hoffman
Associated Press
POSTED: 03:48 p.m. EDT, Jul 01, 2009
LANSING, Mich.: Retired autoworkers' lost vision and dental coverage is causing problems for some practitioners and insurance companies.
Okemos-based Delta Dental has laid off 30 people and will lay off 30 more now that nearly 300,000 retirees from General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, their spouses and dependents no longer have company-provided dental coverage.
The two automakers negotiated with the United Auto Workers union to do away with the coverage as they headed into bankruptcy earlier this year. The last day for coverage was Tuesday.
For dentists such as Timothy Bair and Kristy Beck-Bair at Dimondale Family Care near Lansing, the change likely will mean fewer patients, or at least fewer visits. About 10 percent of their 2,000 patients are GM retirees.
LANSING, Mich.: Retired autoworkers' lost vision and dental coverage is causing problems for some practitioners and insurance companies.
Okemos-based Delta Dental has laid off 30 people and will lay off 30 more now that nearly 300,000 retirees from General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, their spouses and dependents no longer have company-provided dental coverage.
The two automakers negotiated with the United Auto Workers union to do away with the coverage as they headed into bankruptcy earlier this year. The last day for coverage was Tuesday.
For dentists such as Timothy Bair and Kristy Beck-Bair at Dimondale Family Care near Lansing, the change likely will mean fewer patients, or at least fewer visits. About 10 percent of their 2,000 patients are GM retirees.
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