Preserve NYC Employees' (Active & Retired) Healthcare

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#6605

I cannot afford to risk medical care for my multiply disabled son.

Judith Eisman (Mt Sinai, NY, 2022-04-03)

#6607

Keep my health converge

Jacqueline Herbsman (Juno beach, 2022-04-03)

#6610

The whole idea was a miserable mess, and to continue it would be a mistake for 250,000 people's health and your political career.

Barbara Minsky (New York, 2022-04-03)

#6615

Privatizing Medicair hurts us as patients!!!!

Kathe Karlson (New York, 2022-04-03)

#6618

I earned my health care

Rita Menkes (Boca Raton, 2022-04-03)

#6627

The City is reneging on It's agreement with retires.

Robert Koebler (Levittown, 2022-04-03)

#6628

Help with medical insurance

Estra Einhorn (Brooklyn, 2022-04-03)

#6632

Retirees were promised these benefits

Jeffrey Slivko (Brooklyn, 2022-04-03)

#6639

The City signed an agreement when I retired for my medical insurance choices. Typical when the city needs money it steals from retirees that cannot strike!! However we have monetary and political power!!

Roseanne Legrand (New York, 2022-04-03)

#6642

I worked many years with no pay increase and also approved lower increase on order to have my senior care and medicare . I feel this would be a breach of my past contracts

John Meade (Lake ariel pa, 2022-04-03)

#6644

The Advantage Plan is an egregious violation of the city code and the comittment made to retirees.

Steve Frantz (East Hills, 2022-04-03)

#6645

The 240,000 retirees should be allowed to live out there retirement with the health benefits they worked for

Barry Chapman (Bethpage, 2022-04-03)

#6651

I was told what to expect when I retired I would get health benefits for the rest of my life. The city changed the rules of the game after the first inning and the union won’t represent me either.

Brian Grogan (Bayport , NY, 2022-04-03)

#6654

I support this cause.

Aline Walters (Bronx, 2022-04-03)

#6659

I'm signing this letter because the way the City and the Municipal Labor Committee tried to suddenly foist the Alliance Medicare Advantage plan on retirees was an unethical and backroom scheme to privatize retirees' health care. It was done without consulting retirees who rely on original Medicare and secondary City insurance plans to provide good, affordable health care. If allowed, it would change the nature of the care we retirees are provided, putting important decisions about our care in the hands of an insurer who could easily deny us coverage with its preauthorization requirement in order to increase company profits at the expense of needed health care. Further, it would penalize those of us who wanted to retain our GHI Senior Care secondary insurance by forcing us to pay a monthly premium of more than $190. This violates the understanding retirees have had with the City about the quality and security of our medical coverage when we were no longer able to work. This plan was foisted upon us in an underhanded way to make up for the losses when funds saved to provide for increases in the cost of health care were used instead for raises for current employees, one reason why the City wanted to make up the shortfall on the backs of retirees. This cannot be allowed.

Rhoda Schlamm (Woodside, 2022-04-03)

#6662

I'm preparing to retire and have the onset of many age and job related health issues. This bait and switch with retiree health benifits expected vs health benifits now being forced on us is unacceptable .
Thanks to all of you leading the fight on this.

Joseph Cavanagh (Long Beach, 2022-04-03)

#6664

I’m signing because I believe good health care is a fundamental human right. I believe it should be available to whomever needs it regardless of their ability to pay. Health care should be determined by need not by profit. Advantage programs focus on profit. I am currently under care, and I am doing well. I resent being forced to change based on decisions that have nothing to do with improving care.

Maureen McDermott (NYC, 2022-04-03)

#6671

I want Mayor Adams to fight for us to keep our health insurance as was promised upon retirement.

Maureen A Schiaffino (Staten Island, 2022-04-03)

#6681

I’m very satisfied with my present healthcare. I don’t do not want to be switched to a private, for profit, healthcare plan.

Edith Litwack (Great Neck, 2022-04-03)

#6682

Promises made are guaranteed by the sacrifice made both physically and emotionally through my tenure with the NYPD.

Joseph Samaritano (Jackson, New Jersey, 2022-04-03)

#6684

Worked for years supported NYC. Retired with a plan and expectation of quality medical coverage. Breach of contract on part of NYC to retirees.

Noreen DeLuca (Belle Harbor, 2022-04-03)

#6685

I turn 80 this year and I want to keep my current coverage.

michael paccione (delray beach fl, 2022-04-03)

#6688

I am a cancer patient and one of the hospitals where I receive treatment has told me that they DO NOT ACCEPT THE NYC MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PLAN. COSTS ARE ENORMOUS. A hospital administrator in another hospital has told me that “you have gold now ((Medicare.) Why throw that away?

Saul Steinhauser (Monroe Township, 2022-04-03)

#6693

We were promised that our medical insurance after we retired would not be changed without our permission.

David Gurowsky (Bradenton, 2022-04-03)

#6694

Retirees should be treated fairly.

Michael Trombetta (Manhasset, 2022-04-03)

#6695

Arthur Mark

Arthur Mark (St. Augustine, 2022-04-03)

#6705

I want to maintain the health benefits I currently have and as long as I am willing to pay for it I feel it is my right to have the "opt out" privilege.

Constance Chodosh (New York, 2022-04-03)

#6706

We were promised that we could keep the insurance we had with no additional cost.

Allan Heyman (Lake Mary, FL. 32746, 2022-04-03)

#6707

The City of NY is trying to change the health care benefits promised at retirement.

Bernice Joyce Weitz (NYC, 2022-04-03)

#6712

I want to keep governmental Medicare.

Glen Berkowitz (Aventura, Florida, 2022-04-03)

#6716

Retired City worker who wants the medical benefits promised

John Foertsch (New Hyde Park, 2022-04-03)

#6717

I would like the city and the UFT to keep our current medical coverage and to drop any court challenge.

Harriet Dorosin (New York, 2022-04-03)

#6719

The health plan that's being offered is not as good as the policy we always had.

Thomas Garuccio (Monroe Twp. NJ, 2022-04-03)

#6722

The City is violating their contract with us when they reduce our health care options.

Eileen Rubenstein (Delray Beach, 2022-04-03)

#6724

The MAP is not for me.

Elaine Guthrie (Bayside, NY, 2022-04-03)

#6727

I am worried that my health care coverage will be less than what I now have.

Gary Ruiz (Carmel, 2022-04-03)

#6728

I WANT TO KEEP MY PTRSENT HEALTH PLAN.

FRANK MUGNO (Middle Village, 2022-04-03)

#6729

I believe we should maintain the benefits we were promised and earned.

Christine Martin (Queens Village, 2022-04-03)

#6733

I'm signing because I am married to a NYC Retiree and am significantly impacted by this decision. The program as presented offered no choice and assumed you were in unless you opted out. We will be opting out and the cost will be significant on our retirement income.

Stephen Hirschhorn (Brooklyn, 2022-04-03)

#6739

We must preserve our health care rights.

SF Molinelli (Marietta GA, 2022-04-03)

#6740

I want to keep my current medical benefits with Senior Care that I earned while working for NYC for 34 years.

I should not be forced into MAP.
I should not have to pay extra for benefits that I already earned.

Susan Kurtzman (Scotch Plains, 2022-04-03)

#6742

This is a betrayal of trust on the part of the City of New York!
This is a violation of our contractual rights and will weaken the power of all unions in NYC. If allowed to become law, this denigration of healthcare policy will eventually be applied to the current rank and file in the NYPD, FDNY, UFT Teachers, and all Municipal Union members! This atrocity must be stopped!

Catherine & Albert Regenhard (NYC, 2022-04-03)

#6743

I want to retain retiries health plan

joe pender (ny, 2022-04-03)

#6745

I want to keep what I have at no extra cost.

Janyce Jones (Leland, 2022-04-03)

#6752

I do not want Medicare Advantage!

Madeline Petrino (Pearl River, 2022-04-03)

#6754

Medicare advantage plan unfair to retirees and the monthly charge for opting out of the plan is unfair- and the automatic enrollment unfair - a total mistreatment by the MLC, city, and insurance companies.

Vito Spano (Belle Harbor, 2022-04-03)

#6755

I don’t want the City of New York to force me to accept a medical plan that will not be beneficial to me or my spouse in the future.

Lori Caiazzo (New York, 2022-04-03)

#6756

I am happy with the current system of supplemental coverage (in our case GHI/EBCBS) along with Medicare we ourselves paid out of our taxes, and grateful to the City and my union for it. But I am fearful that this and similar Medicare Advantage schemes undermine it, for the benefit of for-profit companies who will be incentivized to deny claims deemed "out of network" or for other spurious reasons, as seen in countless cases nationwide.

Steven Beck (Kew Gardens, NY, 2022-04-03)

#6760

I will not participate in a MAP where some doctors won't accept it and where there are restrictions on services. I also don't like the idea of being blackmailed into participating or else paying closer to $200 per month for medigap insurance when I haven't had to pay for it before. I also think there is an ethical issue with Emblem Health and one of their board members who works for OLR. Just outrageous what NYC is trying to do to their retirees who for the most part live on fixed incomes!

Ann Bially (Brooklyn, 2022-04-03)

#6768

I am a NYC retiree.. asking Gov Adams to please not change my healthcare benefits. It's jsut not fair...

Ortensia Ciccone (Bayside, 2022-04-03)

#6770

I'm signing bc I'm a NYC employee and work very hard at an under -market salary with the promise of good health benefits when I retire. This is a terrible betrayal to reduce benefits after all that we've done

Ilana Breslau (NY, 2022-04-03)

#6771

My mom is a NYC retiree. what NYC is doing to retiree's is criminal. They deserve the healthcare plan as per their contracts.
Mayor Adams... this is your chance to make things right !!! do the right thing...

Marie Ciccone (Bayside, 2022-04-03)

#6774

I stand in unity with workers to advocate on their behalf to get the health care benefits to which they are entitled.

Michelle Kraus (New York, 2022-04-03)

#6786

The judge decided and it is fair.

Ellen Greenberg (Bayside, 2022-04-03)

#6788

Don’t take my Medicare away

Ray Taruskin (Neponsit, 2022-04-03)

#6793

I am signing because the city is reneging on the previously agreed upon health benefits. I would NOT HAVE RETIRED, when I did if I had known this would happen. At the DA’s office we accepted the low wages in part because of the good health plan options.you are breaking our trust.

Miriam Shire (New Rochelle, 2022-04-03)

#6797

Opposed to the changing of our retiree’s Medicare medical plan

Carol Cohen (Boynton Beach, 2022-04-03)

#6800

The union leaders made a secret deal to protect contemporary workers at the cost of the health care of retirees?

I would like to know who is going to make these decisions on referrals?
Are they doctors, people doctors trained, medical school dropouts or laymen?

saul gootnick (Plainview, 2022-04-03)



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