i dont disagree. That was late 2006 and I dont know what the current figure is now. Its a flat rate in the contract. Im not under a union contract these days. They were getting about a buck an hour raise each year and there was probably an increase in the medical payment. But a single guy is contributing a lot of his contract value, to subsidize the larger families.
In the beginning of 2006 I was paying no more than 300 a month. I dont remembers exactly, cause, it was a personal plan and they had just raised my rate, cause I had crossed over the 50 age mark. Every five years, they bump you up. Work was slow, so I dumped the insurance.

They had some policies that I didnt like. I bought my glasses thru walmart which was much cheaper than other stores. But they told me, the union would not reimburse walmart. And, walmart did not bill thru the union. I didnt bother claiming it. I dont remember the copay or the deductible. They didnt want us to bank with wells fargo either. But, I dont know any bank, that has a union contract. Teamster national was not supporting the locals, like they should have. Guy who ran CANS out of the terminals wanted to unionize. One of the port terminals' longshoreman walked off the job. National dropped the ball and the walkout didnt pay off.