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First I like you to know that I have voted as a conservative republican for 30 years in North Carolina. I am a high school teacher and I signed on as a teacher to get the medical benifits as well as retirement benifits. It looked very promising after I recieved my degree. I am also a Vietnam era veteran and served in South Korea from 1973-1976. I recently had my only prescription go from 12 dollars to 20 dollars through CVS and now they will not honor my prescriptions ( Eckerd Drug Stores said Wednesday it will no longer accept the state prescription plan after July 1 if the plan does not begin paying higher rates. Last week, CVS drugs said it would do the same. ) Believe it or not these are the only two drug stores within 10 miles of my home. I am not a deadbeat. I work everyday teaching 9-12 HS from 7:15 to 5:00 and teach periods of 90 minutes of 30 children. This means I teach 90 children for each semester and 180 for each year. I email interims to every parent who has email every three weeks. Parents who do not have email receive a copy from their child. I grade upward of 25 assignments per child during each interim. I have 2 parent teacher conferences per week plus extra school duties and I am the sponser of two afterschool clubs and set aside two days for mentoring and tutoring to my students. Teachers are constantly berated in our society and some deserve it, however there are many who work hard for those benifits. I spend many hours afterschool talking to parents, grading papers and preparing lessons. Do I feel I deserve the benifits, you bet. I am not a slackard. I spent three years in the Eight Army Command in Korea and raised 3 children while attending college to improve my life and theirs. If I complain over the benifits that they said were part of the package when I signed on, they should deliver.