NEA-Alaska/Retired Board
President
Rich Kronberg (2020)
richkronberg@gmail.com
520.907.5285
Vice-President
Judy Salo (2020)
jandrsalo@icloud.com
907.252.4672
Secretary
Barbara Stek (2020)
bwstekak@yahoo.com
907.338.2288
Directors-at-Large
Roxanne Abajian (2019)
roxanne.abajian@gmail.com
907.617.8511
Cindy Lou Aillaud (2020)
smiles99737@yahoo.com
907.895.4286
Trena Richardson (2020)
aktrena@gmail.com
907.252.2881
NEA-Alaska Board – Region R Directors
Rich Kronberg (2020)
richkronberg@gmail.com
520.907.5285
Gayle Harbo (2019)
sjharbo@yahoo.com
907.457.7815
Susan Stitham (2019)
omm1961@gmail.com
907.347.1218
Standing Committee Chairs
Communications Committee
Roxanne Abajian
roxanne.abajian@gmail.com
907.617.8511
Karla Gallagher
klggal@gmail.com
907.223.6238
Health Committee
Judy Salo
jandrsalo@icloud.com
907.252.4672
Barbara Stek
bwstekak@yahoo.com
907.338.2288
Investment Committee
Gayle Harbo
sjharbo@yahoo.com
907.457.7815
Membership Committee
Barbara George
lady_loon@hotmail.com
907.750.0970
Newsletter Committee
Barbara Stek
bwstekak@yahoo.com
907.338.2288
Huge concern. My husband just was notified that his doctor, who he’s had for eighteen years, will not be accepting Aetna insurance as they are so difficult to deal with. Why did we ever quit CostCo who was so easy to work with. And if they won’t deal with them, who else?
Julie, I apologize for no-one getting back to you about your question. Frankly, I rarely look at this page, and the email address listed for me under NEA-Alaska/Retired is incorrect despite a half dozen attempts to get that address changed to the one listed for me as a Region R Director.
The answer to your question is that the decision is not ours, and never has been ours. The overriding concern of the Department of Administration is saving money. When they do that by shifting costs to those covered by AlaskaCare that is when we complain. Aetna has been engaged in a campaign to shift costs to those covered by AlaskaCare, and we have complained about it strenuously. BTW, Costco was never the third party administrator for AlaskaCare. As far as I know, the only connections to them were as a provider for eyeglasses and as a participating pharmacy.
Rich Kronberg