Preserve NYC Employees' (Active & Retired) Healthcare

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#5603

Retirees count and we vote in all elections!

Gerald Esposito (Staten Island NY, 2022-03-22)

#5608

No sick or elderly person deserves to spend their scarce time and energy fighting for needed, standard medical care, just to boost the profits of a cruel insurance company that is responding to financial incentives to deny needed medical care. The Medicare Advantage business and profit models, which reward denying medical care and punish providing it, are inhuman. In contrast, traditional Medicare plus comprehensive Medigap pay providers, rather than penalizing them financially and time-wise, for providing standard, needed medical care.

Amy Rowe (Brooklyn, 2022-03-22)

#5609

I am a NYC government retiree and I object to what the City has been attempting to do to our health care.

Kathryn Nocerino (New York, 2022-03-22)

#5613

It should be like the tier system, your benefits are transparent.

MARTHA SanMiguel (New York,NY, 2022-03-23)

#5615

I care about my future

Stephen Monico (Staten Island , 2022-03-23)

#5618

I am a retired teacher (began teaching in 1970); the new health plan will negatively change the benefits that I currently receive with my GHI-CBP health plan which were promised when I retired in 2006

CAROL WEINBERG (Fresh Meadows NY, 2022-03-23)

#5619

When I/we first started working for the City in 1968 we knew you would never get rich, but good health benefits and pension were guaranteed. Now, when we are old and need these benefits they are trying to break that guarantee. I think they actuaries didn't anticipate us living so long. Therefore, they can CULL the retirees population by giving us inferior health care and instituting the $15 or more, co-payments, which many retirees cannot afford at all. People who are in their 80's and 90's have survived in large part due to the good medical care. Now, the City seeks to throw them under the bus. Under our current plan, we can choose any hospital or medical provider who/which accepts MEDICARE. Under the new plan, already some providers such as Sloane Kettering and the Hospital for Special Surgery have essentially eliminated us saying that they do so only on a case by case basis after evaluation.
Also, it is not known if the amount of money paid to the general doctors and specialists, labs, etc. is equal to what they are receiving now under Medicare and, therefore, they may drop out of the pool of doctors "accepting" to work with this new plan. We also don't know, let's say, how long a doctor will have to wait for his/her reimbursement or pay. Supposing it is 6 months or whatever. Would you still accept the possibly lower reimbursement? We will probably be see a declining number and quality of medical providers. This is essentially HIGHWAY ROBBERY!
Additionally, they want to use the supposed savings to pay wage increases for (union and non-union) CURRENT employees, including the directors and other big shots. What they don't realize, to quote Stuart Liebowitz, is that: "they are Retirees In Training." That means that in due course, they too will be retirees and they are biting their noses to spite their faces!
Sincerely,
Ms. Merritt Gelfand Claude

Merritt Claude (Bronx, 2022-03-23)

#5621

I want to keep the insurance I was promised.
Do not change my health plan.

Melanie Oser (Brooklyn, 2022-03-23)

#5622

The union is failing. Rights and choice have been taken away.

Lorene Bottoms (Doylestown, 2022-03-23)

#5626

Preserve my health care benefits as a retiree and WTC 9/11 survivor. My health care is essential

Mark Steffens (Fort Lauderdale , 2022-03-23)

#5633

I did not work 32 years for the city to have my healthcare changed against my will. It is unfair to pay to stay in a program I was promised in 1981.

Susan James (Queens, 2022-03-23)

#5634

NYC needs to stop it's UNION inspired betrayal of RETIREES!

Jim Ryan (Kew Gardens, 2022-03-23)

#5635

The plan hasn't been totally reviewed, and it is shortsighted for many. The Senior Care cost is outrageous and we need to maintain current without change.

Jean De Mange (St. Petersburg, 2022-03-23)

#5636

I'm signing to express how essential my current health insurance is in my senior years, & want to preclude any other assaults on it that may compromise its value to me or my fellow retirees.

Helen Dym (New York, 2022-03-23)

#5637

Retired on a job incurred disability and am on a fixed income.

Walter Hulse (Seaford, NY 11783, 2022-03-23)

#5639

l retired knowing that l was going to be taking care of in my senior years. I like my fellow retirees didn’t take full pay raises to insure we would have the health care that the City of New York promised in righting.
Please help NYC keep it’s word.

Geraldine OBrien (Royal Palm Beach, 2022-03-23)

#5640

Because the city of NY must honored commitment with NYC retirees as public servants since the moment we were hired. Any changes to the agreement must include retirees at the table. In this Medicare disadvantage we as retirees union members were not consulted.

Lizette Colon (NEW YORK, 2022-03-23)

#5641

Preserving a fair and comprehensive healthcare plan for retirees is important.
It offers emotional security.

Dara Kantrowitz (Staten Island, 2022-03-23)

#5644

I want to continue on the same plan.

Dorothy Burns (Rhinebeck, 2022-03-23)

#5648

It is a disgrace that anyone could even fathom removing benefits that people worked at least 25 years to earn and are counting on. If you want to change things for people coming in now, that’s different. But in -service people and retirees should not have to deal with a bait and switch on crucial healthcare. We chose a profession where we get paid significantly less than others with master’s degrees- because the benefits were a trade off. How can you do this to people in good conscience?

Christine Cortes (Staten Island , 2022-03-23)

#5659

NYC RETIREES Do not need any changes in their Current Health Care plan. Medicare is fine as is.
There should be no healthcare givebacks. We are too old to deal with any more health increases!

Orundun Johnson (New York City, 2022-03-23)

#5661

This issue is so vital to our continuity of care. I don’t want to loose my present doctors

John Francis (Staten Island NY, 2022-03-23)

#5663

The Healthcare package proposed does not benefit the NYC Retirees- stop forcing the proposed package on the NYC Retirees.

Jean Kelly (Freeport, 2022-03-23)

#5669

I am a retired NYPD officer who was likely to die in a line of duty injury. I received the purple shield. I have ongoing health issues from this incident in addition to 9/11. I should not have to worry about my promised health benefits that I worked for and earned. Please do the right thing.

Maureen Cerati (North Bellmore, 2022-03-23)

#5671

Johanna Monda

Johanna Monda (STATEN Island, 2022-03-23)

#5674

Want to keep the Medicare we were promised

Rose Marie Alibrandi-Murtagh (Mahopac , 2022-03-23)

#5679

This will hurt NYC employees who worked many years for the city and now are being hit with unfair expenses. We deserve better.

Barbara Le Goff (Woodside, 2022-03-23)

#5685

Don't want Medicare to be privatized and the Health care Benefits we worked so hard for diminished.

Julia R Jorge (New York, 2022-03-23)

#5690

It matters to my wellbeing.

Valerie Jefferson (Englewood , 2022-03-23)

#5693

I’m loving you all

Dana Liebowitz (Boca raton fla., 2022-03-23)

#5697

Give retirees the choice of medical insurance

Linda Blumstein-Lanter (Brooklyn, 2022-03-24)

#5703

Mayor Adams please do not appeal Judge L. Frank’s decision on March 3, 2022

Mary Anne Jentzen (Pearl River, 2022-03-24)

#5705

Wish to keep my current Health Care Insurance.

Douglas Lipman (Wellington, Fl., 2022-03-24)

#5711

They are eroding our health care.

Laura Roth (Boynton Beach, 2022-03-24)

#5718

The map plan will hurt all the seniors especially who need tests done asap. to save their lives.

Barbara Price (New City, 2022-03-24)

#5725

I Do not want to give up the medical insurance coverage that was promised to me when I joined the New York City Fire Dept. Why do retirees have to be the scapegoats for city's shortfall?

Louie Bevilacqua (Eureka , 2022-03-25)

#5727

I’m 62 and my husband and I need our medical benefits that were promised. I put 33 years, took very little sick days and vacation. Never missed days, give me what you guys promised.

Maxine McAdoo-Lovell (Brooklyn , 2022-03-25)

#5729

I am signing this because my husband worked for NYC Sanitation and is retired and we want to keep our medical insurance to stay the same. We want what was promised to the retirees with no changes.

Linda Coccia (Fort Mill , South Carolina , 2022-03-25)

#5730

I'm signing because of the unethical, unjust position the city of New York has taken regarding the medical benefits for retirees.

Edmund Stubbing (Stony Point, 2022-03-25)

#5732

My husband is ill and needs his doctors and cant go to one to be referred to another/He needs a specialist when he needs one. He served NYPD for many years and was promised his health insurance would always be in place.
for Paul Barasch

Susan Barasch (Margate, 2022-03-25)

#5744

I believe in original Medicare. I know what MAP’s DON’T do….& they don’t give u access to the best medical care! We were promised original Medicare and Senior Care. I want what I worked for….@ below par wages!

Randi Goldman (Brooklyn, 2022-03-26)

#5747

I want the health plan that I was promised and worked 27 years for.

Vincent Recchio (Lake Ariel PA, 2022-03-26)

#5750

I want the medical plans that have served City of New York retirees to continue as opposed to the recent proposed Medicare Advantage Plus which very inadequately and unfairly meets the needs of retirees who have served the city for many years.It is a distrustful and dismissive plan which does not recognize the individual medical needs of the aging retiree population....

Carol Garramone (Ojai, 2022-03-26)

#5754

Hi I worked for 27 years and retired with these health benefits my pension is small and can’t afford to pay for a plan that I retired with 16 years ago

Rose Distasi (Bellerose , 2022-03-26)

#5756

I'm retired almost 29 years they should leave us grandfathered in

Vincent Lopane (St.Augustine, 2022-03-26)

#5758

In 1964 I was sworn into the NYPD and told that my healthcare policy will be paid in full by the City of NY as long as I live..

Stanley Kriegsman (Boynton Beach, 2022-03-26)

#5762

My wife is a UFT Member.

Scott Cohen (GREAT NECK, 2022-03-26)

#5765

I am very happy with what I have and prefer what I have to being screwed , yet again

john sochacki (lake worth, 2022-03-26)

#5769

I am retired from NYPD and effected by this decision

James Williams (PALM COAST, 2022-03-26)

#5771

When I started to work for CUNY I was promised retirement on Medicare
I recently retired last January now the city wants to renege on their promise

Josephine Murphy (Booklyn, 2022-03-26)

#5772

I want to keep my health insurance

Jeanne Galvin (Malverne ny, 2022-03-26)

#5776

NYC employees tools these jobs, sometimes decades ago, based on a promise that they would continue to have good health care after they retired. What is being attempted is like a breach of contract.

Beth Evans (Brooklyn, 2022-03-27)

#5779

I would like to keep my medical plan.

Rachel Grant (BROOKLYN, 2022-03-27)

#5782

Do not want ant changes to my Medicare

ERNEST Dove (Coconut Creek, 2022-03-27)

#5785

I want to keep my health care benefits the way they are now.

Frank Greco (Greeley, 2022-03-27)

#5789

I want to keep my current Health
Care Plan. The one that I was promised at retirement. I am not in favor of the City's MAP plan. It is inferior to the Healthcare I have now and a breach of the promise I was given during 30+ years of service to the City.

Thomas Cashin (Brooklyn, 2022-03-27)

#5800

The expense of putting me in another plan would be too great for me to pay, I am 74 years old and have been retired since 1989 on disability.

Kenneth Nagle (Providence Forge, 2022-03-27)



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