Preserve NYC Employees' (Active & Retired) Healthcare

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#1809

Totally stop the MAP from going through. Keep out traditional Medicare that was promised to us

Karen Mulfeld (Palm Beach Gardens, 2022-03-14)

#1813

Promises made by the City should be kept.

Paul Hecht (Pensacola, 2022-03-14)

#1815

I want what was promised to me.

Charles Henderson (Hendersonville, NC, 2022-03-14)

#1816

I believe there are no meritorious legal, moral or just reasons for an appeal. The Court's decision was legally correct. If you want to save taxpayers' money, drop the appeal.

Joan Palermo (NYC, 2022-03-14)

#1828

I want to keep my Emblem Health & Medicare separately. NYC Advantage Care not good cause I live in FL

Maureen Salammaureen@gmail.com (Delray Beach, 2022-03-14)

#1829

Many of my doctors will not participate in the Medicare Advantage Plus Plan and with our specific medical issues we may not be able to wait for approval to get tests or see a specialist in time before our condition gets worse.
This is not fair to those of us who were promised our benefits would not change for the remainder of our life. We worked for the City in the prime of our life only to be thrown to the side of the road in our golden years when we need additional medical attention the most.

Albert Rahner (Franklin Square, 2022-03-14)

#1836

We served the City well for years, and in good faith with the promise that we could select and keep our health care plans for the duration of our retirement. I fully understand that health care costs have skyrocketed and I am not opposed to attempting to reign in costs. However, this should not be done at the expense of retirees who are the most vulnerable and facing inevitable health concerns. There must be a better way! Please do not appeal Judge Frank's decision dated March 2, 2022. Please look for other ways to save money that will not be on the backs of retirees.

Frances Anne Strutt (White Plains, 2022-03-14)

#1838

Sonia Villegas

Sonia Villegas (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1839

Losing my present health covage that I and my wife have now potentially then losing our dr's we have now would cause cerniffenly cost hardships to me and wife
Because I retired from NYPD IN 1983 MY pension is small by 2022 standards have had health issiues along with wife cannot lose dr' s and hospitals we use now for treatment due to healthcare change or lost of care we have now Please Mr Mayor don't go through with city's appeal of court ruling From one retired cop to another ( yourself ) Don't change or drop our healthcare for another plan my doctor's probably won't take

Daniel Murray (Floral Park, 2022-03-14)

#1841

Need the Medicare and GHI sinior care due to my health problems and can not afford the $191 payment to keep it.

Kitay El (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1846

Gave my Body and almost my life working for NYC
Like during my 91/2 months at WTC
Where MYC told us air was safe
ALMOST DIED FROM LUNG CANCER AND LYMPH NODES CANCER
LEAVE OUR MEDICARE ALONE

Salvatore Annerino (Port Charlotte fl, 2022-03-14)

#1847

I am determined to keep my current medical coverage

Catherine Riordan (Port St Lucie, 2022-03-14)

#1850

I dont want a Managed Advantage Plan

Ted Reich (Seaford, New York, 2022-03-14)

#1851

I worked for these benefits and do not like the way the city and my union negotiated the health benefits away from us.

Wendy Barckhaus (Treadwell, 2022-03-14)

#1852

I earn my health benefits and want it to remain the same!

LORRAINE ASHEPA (Florida, 2022-03-14)

#1853

The cost of keeping my current coverage would be excessive if the court decision is overturned by appeal. Secondly my coverage was obtained by collective bargaining and attempts to change it is done without any form of representation for me.

Robert Gibbons (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1854

These are the benefits I was promised when I was first hired

Jadwiga Kanaval (Shirley, 2022-03-14)

#1855

After working faithfully for 20 years with NYPD I was promised that my health insurance would be guaranteed until my death as a benefit I earned. My choice of plan for the senior GHI Emblem that was always at no charge to me should not ever be changed to a up charge. This is a classic bait & switch scheme and is very disheartening and dishonest attempt to defraud the people that want this plan. The monthly charges plus the new copayments would negatively impact the health and well-being of the very employees that served the city in good faith. Please as a former officer in the NYPD please use your position as mayor to stop this attempt to rob Retirees of the benefits they have earned and we’re promised by contract with the City of NY. Thank you.

James Metz (Valley Stream, 2022-03-14)

#1858

I believe it is unfair to change an agreement unilaterally

Ted Bunin (Lawrence, 2022-03-14)

#1859

It’s imperative to preserve NYC Employees’ active & retired healthcare!!!!!

Laura Young (Queens, 2022-03-14)

#1866

I want to keep my current insurance

Kathleen Trainor (Floral Park, 2022-03-14)

#1867

I've given years of devoted & excellent service (since 1965) to teaching at a salary that was minimum, but with the promise of a pension and choice of health care.

Nancy Waisman (Richmond Hill, 2022-03-14)

#1877

It's the right thing to do.

Meritta Simpkins (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1881

I’m perfectly happy with the health plan I am currently enrolled in and have been in for the last 50 years.

Anthony Sexton (Cold Spring, 2022-03-14)

#1882

You don’t pull the health care “rug” out from under people at a time when health care becomes a daily concern.

George Heimberger (Yonkers, 2022-03-14)

#1883

I was promised the healthcare I have now for my lifetime. The new Medicare Advantage is an inferior medical coverage. I have a sick husband possibly in need of a liver transplant and none of his doctors would accept this new insurance. I pray everyday that this plan is NOT forced upon us!

Denise Lopez-Sampogne (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1884

I want to keep my current plan.

Janice Chu (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1888

I believe in this fight. We must all stand together and let our voices be heard.

Ann marie Consalvo (Staten Island, 2022-03-14)

#1897

WAYNE HEINLEIN

WAYNE HEINLEIN (SPRING HILL, FL., 2022-03-14)

#1901

Now when retirees are on fixed pensions, the City is forcing them to pay to keep the medical benefits they currently have. The City is asking them to go on a plan where permission for necessary tests, therapy and procedures can be denied. Even if doctors take MAP, they can limit the number of patients they see with that insurance. Furthermore, those seeking to stay on GHI Senior Care may have to make a choice between food, living expenses and good medical care because they can’t afford both. We must stand together to stop this.

Suzanne Cohen (NY, 2022-03-14)

#1904

I’m signing this because I believe that the City of New York and my Union Local 831 conspire to take away my Medical Benefits without my consent it’s more like obama Care. Leave it alone

Antonio Repollet (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1909

To permit us to have a choice of healthcare plans.

Lynn Paynter (Piermont, 2022-03-14)

#1917

I want to keep my present GHI/Senior Care Plan!

Gail Zavlick (New Rochelle, 2022-03-14)

#1919

My mother is a retired NYC elementary school teacher who has always trusted her union to do what's best for her. If she didn't have a daughter who followed the news, she wouldn't know that she was going to be automatically moved into a health plan that would put her access to procedures in the hands of a private insurance company. There are other retired teachers in her community who aren't aware of the proposed changes. This was not a good-faith proposal.

Barbara Krasnoff (Brooklyn, NY, 2022-03-14)

#1927

I want to continue to have access to the same benefits I was promised as a NYC employee.

Eli Gottlieb (New York City, 2022-03-14)

#1929

I think that any New York City employee who has required with set benefits should be allowed to continue what was in place and promised. All retirees have set and planned their retirement around their benefits. Do not attempt to take benefits away to make up for current and future budgets. Spend correctly and wisely and don’t make up losses of our backs!

Maria L. Barresi (Bronx, 2022-03-14)

#1932

The switch to this advantage plan is unfair and NOT what was in place when I served or retired, now 20 years later they are giving us a "lesser" program of health care. When most of us need it most.

Paul Cognato (Myrtle Beach, 2022-03-14)

#1936

I am mad as hell and can’t take it anymore. Having retired in 2005 the diminished Medicare Disadvantage plan Is not what we bargained for. We all deserve the same Medicare part A and B coverage every Senior American has. Between Bidinflation at 8% the increase to have Medicare part A and B would cost me 15% which amounts to 23% percent of my yearly net pension. Need I say more…. Give us what you bargained for written in contracts prior to my retirement.

Paul Rodriguez (Toms River NJ, 2022-03-14)

#1937

I’m signing because The City should honor its commitment to its workers.

Deborah Sullivan (Mamaroneck, 2022-03-14)

#1942

Because the city needs to stand up, be responsible for its faithful workers who put their heart and soul into this city.It’s not right to short change us after we’re no longer useful. We’re not looking for a hand out,we already earned what we’re trying to keep.

Thomas Monahan Sr (Allentown, 2022-03-14)

#1948

To preserve the benefits we earned through faithful service to the City of New Work.

Robert Kryger (NY, 2022-03-14)

#1949

This is so wrong to do this to workers who have worked for twenty years with the promise of keeping their medical .How dare they do this to the elderly When they need their doctors now in their later years they are giving inferior medical . They should be ashamed of themselves .

Donna Boliak (Staten island, 2022-03-14)

#1951

I'm signing because for years teachers were not given contracts that allowed us to maintain our families at a financial level that was comparable to those in private industry, but there was always the long term , very long term promise of health care plus pension. There were contracts when we received nothing but a promise of money in the future or the next contract, but I stayed. I loved my work and I figured it out. I am in the years now when more immediate care may be required, my husband during the pandemic required immediate heart surgery which if it had waited for approval as in the Mapp may have been deadly for sure. He did not need approval under Medicare for his Cat Scan and he went almost directly from that to scheduling surgery also not requiring approval, but under Mapp, well we all know, approval process which could be days, could be declined, who knows, and second approval, and it could have had a very different result.
We had an expectation, an agreement, and we prefer the healthcare that we paid for and are still paying for, we contribute to Medicare , and we want Medicare, not medicare advantage which is privatized medicine, for profit, and we all know how bad that can be. You are a democrat, democrats are always trying to improve the lives of the citizens they serve, as opposed to Republicans who support policies that help those in business, which would iinclude privatized health care. Dems are not for privatization of their healthcare, or of Social Security, etc. If you represent the Democratis in this City and country , pay attention to the platforms of the Democratic party. You can't say one thing and do another. Please respect and protect the lives of the NYC Retirees to keep and receive the healthcare that they, we deserve.

Patricia Goldberg (BELLMORE, 2022-03-14)

#1953

Preventing theft of our services

Eric Weiss (NYC, 2022-03-14)

#1959

I WANT TO KEEP MY INSURANCE PLAN AS IS.OR HAVE A CHOICE.I HAVE NUMEROUS MEDICAL ISSUES AND THE NEW PLAN IS NOT GOING TO GIVE ME THE SAME PEACE OF MIND AS THE ONE I HAVE.I EARNED IT!!!!!!!!

thomas dades (manalapan, 2022-03-14)

#1960

I’m signing this petition as I feel that the city negotiated increases for the UFT members without securing the benefits and did not consider impact to the retirees and used monies that were already guaranteed to the NYC retirees which are the most vulnerable of the city’s former workforce.

Sonia Rodriguez (Brooklyn NY, 2022-03-14)

#1962

The current plan is flawed.

Linda Potter (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1964

I need to keep my current health insurance

Marjorie Goldberg (Delray Beach, 2022-03-14)

#1966

Unfair treatment after my dedicated service with the NYPD

John Holub (New Kent, 2022-03-14)

#1968

I believe that Medicare Advantage plans only serve to enrich private insurers. They are the wrong direction for NYC to take.

Marina Sgroi (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1973

NYC promised (this) continued coverage upon retirement. I want what was guaranteed when I began my employment in 1972.

Lynn Bresler (Brooklyn, NY, 2022-03-14)

#1974

Find another way leave senior retirement people alone set something for New Employees!

Janes Haig (Ft Lauderdale Fla., 2022-03-14)

#1975

You can't change a contract in the ninth. inning.

Andrew Mondi (Manalapan, 2022-03-14)

#1978

I want the benefits I was told I would get upon retiring.

Jane Tringali (Queens, 2022-03-14)

#1979

Please let us keep what we promised

Faggiole Paula (Freehold, 2022-03-14)

#1985

I do not wish to change my health plan. Nor do I want to be charged for not doing so. I expect the city of new York to stick by my decision upon retirement? In addition it would be a financial strain on me and my family?

Edward Lang (Brightwaters, 2022-03-14)

#1989

I cannot afford anymore costs

Richard Gimbl (Ocean Isle Beach, 2022-03-14)

#1990

I don’t want the City to appeal Judge Frank’s decision.

Roberta Hand (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1993

I believe we should have a choice and not be forced into a plan that is not as good as what we have now.
It's a shame what the city is doing and to penalize us with monthly fees to keep our insurance is a shame.

Raul Gonzalez Jr (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1996

The city should not force into a crummier health plan. It’s not fair

Finley Hunt (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1998

I'm a DOE retiree who gave my students my all and above. I could have gone to Herricks School District but opted to stay with NYC. I would have made more money (larger pension) and would now be on the NYS Teachers healthcare. My father was a NYC motorman and always said the city would take care of us. What would he think now?

Jacqueline O'Connor (MANHASSET, 2022-03-14)



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