I'm sure mine will be reduced to "Chevy II" status soon enough, but for now it's still really good. It's getting expensive for the employer, but the union (Communications Workers of America) has managed to keep our health insurance pretty much the same for the last 20 years. It will likely be a different story when the current contract expires in May. I have no doubt that as retirement approaches in nine or ten years, my health coverage will have changed quite a bit. The only thing that I can think of that may work in my favor is that labor costs are constantly being reduced through not replacing retirees. My position with the company is a good one, but since telecom is evolving at such as fast pace, there will soon be no need for techs who know how to work with copper or repair analog data circuits (you'd be surprised how many of them are still in service).