Preserve NYC Employees' (Active & Retired) Healthcare

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#2801

I am the wife of a retired NYC Dept of Corrections officer. I have MCR and am concerned about the future of our promised, contractural medical coverage.

Victoria Lombardo (Ocala, 2022-03-14)

#2802

I’m extremely happy with my present health care!! Always Have Been!!!

Daniel Mutino (Tampa, 2022-03-14)

#2803

I believe the City has gone back on its promise to provide me with my Original Medicare and my supplemental health benefit through GHI Senior Care.

Priscilla Balch (New York, 2022-03-14)

#2810

I devoted 18 years of my life to serving the city, earning way less than I could have in private industry, with the assurance that I would be guaranteed GOOD health insurance as I aged.

Fran Schenk (Brooklyn, 2022-03-15)

#2811

preserve our medical

marlene Rose (Bayside, 2022-03-15)

#2813

I do not believe in privatized health insurance. I believe that ALL advantage plans make money by rationing service. I believe many doctors will not accept any Medicare advantage plans

Clifford Fee (New York, 2022-03-15)

#2814

This petition encourages you to find a reasonable compromise that will enable the City to save money while providing a quality plan for retirees, while keeping the Medicare Supplemental promise for current retirees who choose it.

Dennis Pope (Astoria, 2022-03-15)

#2820

I am worried that the new plan will not help me with my examinations due to lung and heart conditions due to working in a busy firehouse.

William Knapp (Rock Tavern, 2022-03-15)

#2821

We cannot afford to pay for our Senior Care and both my husband & I are disabled!

Mary Contessa (Pembroke Pines, 2022-03-15)

#2824

I do not want Medicare advantage to be forced on me

Steven Finnell (New York, 2022-03-15)

#2825

It is your job to protect the most important retirees in this city. We worked rain or shine, difficult parents, oversized class size with students from all over
the world. Dealing with administrators, lack of supplies, a myriad of unruly students, etc, etc, etc.

Joyce Solivan (New York, 2022-03-15)

#2826

I will be retiring in a few years and health insurance is important to me due to personal reasons

Katherine Angwin (Middle Village, 2022-03-15)

#2827

Dear Mayor Adams, Please do not appeal Judge Frank's decision dated March 3, 2022. Sit with retirees to understand the shortcomings of the NYC Medicare Advantage Plus Plan as proposed and to craft a better program that will not diminish our healthcare. This includes continuing to give retirees a choice of plans that address diverse, individual medical circumstances, such as retaining traditional Medicare-plus-supplemental coverage options. Together, we can find ways to help save the City money. We also ask that you impose strict parameters on how the Health Insurance Stabilization Fund and Retiree Health Benefit Trust can be used.

Robert Conner (Fayetteville, 2022-03-15)

#2829

I'M signing because this is an unfair change to what I was promised. To keep what I have would cost me more.

fran KOKOruda (NYC, 2022-03-15)

#2830

I don’t feel that I must do anything that the city deems right for me and my family.

Ken Siemers (Staten Island, 2022-03-15)

#2833

I should be able to choose the health plan that would be best for me after all my years of dedicated service.

Susan Gaylo (Parrish, 2022-03-15)

#2836

What’s fair and right and promised should be upheld. To hurt people that are aging and on more limited incomes is inhumane. Those of us that have our all as city workers shouldn’t be punished and harmed

Florence Shomer (Brooklyn, 2022-03-15)

#2839

Healthcare is very important!!!!

Louise Gyuro (Elkton, 2022-03-15)

#2841

I would have had to pay $255.00 a month to retain the healthcare benefits I now have, having worked from 1967-2004 at a salary that never exceeded $82,000.00 and change with two Masters degrees and 30 credits beyond that.

Joan Introzzi (Eastchester, 2022-03-15)

#2844

Retirees who served the City deserve to be treated fairly and not have their health benefits diminished.

Charles Moran (Sarasota, 2022-03-15)

#2847

It’s wrong for city to mandate and implement insurance.

Paul Sainsbury (Port Jefferson Station, 2022-03-15)

#2851

I want to defend Medicare and make union leadership listen to retirees.

Blair Bertaccini (New York, 2022-03-15)

#2852

What’s happening is unfair.

Joseph Nittolo (Brewster, 2022-03-15)

#2861

I am signing this on behalf of my 94-year old mother. Why in essence force her to change to a plan that may or may not benefit her as well as the plan she currently has. I've seen how Medicare with a secondary plan can work well for subscribers when my father had to be admitted to hospice. There were questions about the use of a Medicare Advantage program but Medicare was accepted without question during the final days of his life.

Tina Bonanno (BRONX, 2022-03-15)

#2865

Not only me but all NYC employees worked hard and should be compensated they way the city agreed to when they hired us

Deborah Swartz (Sumter, 2022-03-15)

#2871

I am urging NYC Mayor not to hurt municipal retirees. Please leave our Senior Health Care as it has always been and without extra monthly payments

Barbara Rook (Boca Raton, 2022-03-15)

#2878

Back in 2007, The UFT stated that Medicare and GHI should never be privatized. Here they are going back on their word.Retirees have served well and should be treated with dignity and great health care!

JoAnne Kase (Plainview, 2022-03-15)

#2880

Mayor Adams, Please do not appeal Judge Frank's decision dated March 3, 2022

Michael Parrino (Royal Palm Beach, 2022-03-15)

#2886

I oppose the New Medical Plan.

Kevin Barry (Albrightsville, 2022-03-15)

#2890

After serving this city for over 20 years
Myself and Many others cannot afford this new plan
Our pensions and social security does not go up
We ALL signed up for free health care for the rest of out lives we all paid into OUR social security for OUR Medicare
Not to have the city take it from us

Dodie Braver (Jackson Heights, 2022-03-15)

#2894

Not looking to have my Medicare and supplemental coverage taken away and replaced with a MAP of any kind.

Eleanor Reilly (Glendale, 2022-03-15)

#2895

I believe that Medicare Advantage Plans erode our health care and hurt seniors.

Gina M Elmi (Garden City, 2022-03-15)

#2900

I want to preserve my existing healthcare

james finnell (Kings Park, 2022-03-15)

#2903

I feel strongly about this issue

Sheryl Golob (Bayside, 2022-03-15)

#2905

I worked hard everyday as a school staff nurse in a school with close to 1000 students. One reason I took this position was because of the security in retirememt. Please do not throw us in our retirement under the bus. We need our Medicare left as is, we worked for this and no one should try to change it on us.

Caroline DeTota (Staten Island, 2022-03-15)

#2907

I want what was promised to me when I was hired

Lillian Perrone (Staten Island, 2022-03-15)

#2910

Promises made should be kept. The retired NYC employees are vulnerable and their healthcare benefits should not be eroded. They worked for many years and deserve not to be cheated of high quality health care.

Nancy Frank (San Francisco, 2022-03-15)

#2911

I believe in what this organization is doing and what they stand for the city of New York cannot be trusted

Allen Cruz (Queens ny, 2022-03-15)

#2914

I pick am signing this because I want the healthcare promised to me when I retired on disability!! I gave my body to the city now it’s there turn to take care of it. We didn’t take all those zeros on contracts to get screwed now.

Robert Kennedy (Bethpage, 2022-03-15)

#2918

My pension is 30yrs. old. If I opt-out it will cost me more than I can afford, but I will have to do it! Very sad, I never thought my City would do such a thing.

James Dennedy (Bullville, 2022-03-15)

#2922

I retired after 45 years of service. I loved every day. I am now 69 and have metastatic breast cancer. My traditional Medicare and GHI Senior Care is giving me the best chance to have some good years in retirement.

Marlene Hochstadt (New City, 2022-03-15)

#2925

The city has abrogated its agreement with NYC teachers who devoted 25 or more years to the children of New York, with the understanding that in their years of retirement, their health care would remain as it was designed by the great Albert Shanker.

vivian burger lazar (new york, 2022-03-15)

#2931

Stop taking from the unborn and stealing from the retired. Thank you MAP for your leadership for protecting our earned healthcare.

Tom Eppinger (Staten Island NY, 2022-03-15)

#2937

When I signed up to work for the City, over 20 years ago, I was promised free healthcare in retirement that would be as good as the GHI plan I chose when I joined the City. I worked for the City at much lower than private sector pay, relying on receiving that benefit. In retirement, none of my doctors (who did accept GHI when I was working and who continue to accept GHI Senior Care) are accepting the NYC Medicare Advantage Plan. Some accept not a single Medicare Advantage Plan. The new MAP plan is NOT as good as Original Medicare & the GHI Senior Care Medigap policy. Please do not waste more public dollars on the City's appeal, or on trying to continue with the obviously defective new Advantage program. If retirees had been involved in any fashion, early on, in the City and the MLC's decision making, none of us would now be in this place. It is my belief that all of us can work cooperatively on finding ways to help save the City money, while also keeping the City's promise to retirees. Please drop the appeal. Thank you.
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Ellen Rieser (Carmel, 2022-03-15)

#2939

I need to keep my good health benefits. Medicare and senior catey

Patricia Foody (Bethlehem, 2022-03-15)

#2940

I think this MAP reneged on the city’s promise to its workers. The judge’s decision was fair and legally right. Please drop the appeal.

Lloyd Greyson (White Plains, 2022-03-15)

#2945

There is no way that the MA plan is fair for retirees!

Harriet Novick (Howard Beach, NY, 2022-03-15)

#2946

Traditional medicare was promised to us. We worked committedly for our entire careers and deserve our promised benefits.

Jenifer Marcus (New York, 2022-03-15)

#2948

Leave our benefits alone

Naimoli John (Rockaway Park, 2022-03-15)

#2952

Many of my fellow vulnerable retirees are unable to sign..the most valuable asset we have is our Traditional Medicare ..so I sign for them and myself..

TIEA HICKS (laurelton, 2022-03-15)

#2955

When it’s time for me to go on Medicare I would like the actual version and not the one the city is pushing that has no coverage.

Michael Murphy (Massapequa, 2022-03-15)

#2964

I DO NOT WANT MY PROMISED HEALTH BENEFITS CHANGED.

JAMES MCGUINNESS (BOYNTON BEACH, 2022-03-15)

#2965

I am satisfied with the plan I retired under and appreciate OM & GHI senior benefits .
All of my 5 doctors have discounted Medicare Advantage Plans as restricting Physician’s care and suppressing my access very often to my doctor’s request.

Alice Corti (Yonkers, 2022-03-15)

#2973

I want the health benefits I paid into and was promised to me for as long as I lived!

Michelle Clifton (New York, 2022-03-15)

#2974

I am happy with my current plan and I do not want to pay more now that my income is fixed!

Doris Fins (NYC, 2022-03-15)

#2977

As a retiree from the NYC DOE on a fixed income, my husband and I have considerable medical needs which often require timely intervention. We need to keep our medical professionals
to ensure continuity of care. The City of New York needs to keep its contractual obligation to retirees who have served for so many years. Retirees don’t deserve to be marginalized. Don’t change our health plan. Do the right thing!!!

Joy Agati (New York, 2022-03-15)

#2979

NYC promised to provide a certain level of healthcare coverage to its retirees. The MAPP offered clearly does not reach this level. If the city wants to offer inferior coverage to new prospective employees, as long as they are up front about it, so be it. Of course, the better candidates will seek employment elsewhere. The city made an agreement with their current employees and retirees long ago and can't reneg now.

Michael Eitingon (Wantagh, 2022-03-15)

#2980

I do not want Adams to appeal.

Carol Linda Atkins (Brooklyn, 2022-03-15)

#2981

My husband worked for NYC for 20 years. His salary reflected the security of knowing the union would supply health benefits for life.
Now , as a senior , we are going to have to pay and we feel as if we already paid.

RonnieSue Ambrosino (Surprise, 2022-03-15)

#2982

I am one of the approximately quarter million retirees from NY City Civil Service who paid into Medicare, am entitled to Medicare, and want and need traditional Medicare with proper secondary coverage as contracted and am also concerned about the devastating effect th loss of our proper ("Senior Care") plan would have on retirees who have less pension income and/or even more serious multiple health conditions than I.

Thank you.

Stephen Klips (Brooklyn, 2022-03-15)

#2987

To get Mayor Adams to back the retirees in their efforts to do away with the MAP and the effects on all retirees who have not paid for their health coverage.

Eddie Finn Jr (Staten Island, 2022-03-15)

#2988

I want the new mayor to show support to seniors who devoted their lives and careers to NYC

George Abele (Ossining, 2022-03-15)

#2989

I know the disadvantages of so called Advantage plans, and this new plan was misrepresented and agreed to by no one who represents me.

Spencer Schein (Los Angeles, 2022-03-15)

#2990

Fairness to keep promises

Richard DeSimone (Melbourne, 2022-03-15)

#2992

I want to keep my current medical insurance with any increase in payment from me.

Ralph Francisco (Poughkepsie, 2022-03-15)

#2996

The City should not be reneging on providing the benefits I was supposed to be receiving as a retiree. They are not acting in good faith.

Rich Hamilton (New York, 2022-03-15)

#2997

I need to keep the doctors I have
I have a husband who has cancer with no cure the last thing I need to worry about is my medical changing
The $191.57 would be a financial burden
My pension is not going to increase and I was promised when I retired that my medical would stay the same

Maryann Fanale (Staten Island, 2022-03-15)

#3000

I am signing because I do not want this change in my Medicare plan. It is against my contract, and putting unnecessary stress on many peoples lives.

Valerie Cirillo (Nanuet, 2022-03-15)



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