Preserve NYC Employees' (Active & Retired) Healthcare

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#601

Since the new Advantage Plan is a poorer product than Traditional Medicare, retirees who accept the advantage plan will receive less than they originally had when they retired. (Naturally, the inferior plan costs less.)

Barry Geller (FAR ROCKAWAY, 2022-03-13)

#603

I want the medical benefits I was promised when I joined the NYPD and paid for my entire career

John DiCarlantonio (The Villages, 2022-03-13)

#607

Want to keep my plan

Lothar Funke (Holbrook, 2022-03-13)

#609

As a Retired Firefighter and UFA
Delegate, I’m upset about the City reneging on its pledge to maintain our Health Coverage.
But deeply disturbed by the Union’s apparent Betrayal of its Retiree’s.
We must organize to protect ourselves going forward.
Thank You, Retiree’s Organization !

Elbert Washington (Brooklyn, 2022-03-13)

#613

Because I have underlining health conditions I will not have any part of the MAP insurance plan

Frank Anglisano (Hicksville New York, 2022-03-13)

#616

I have worked at the NYC Board of ED/DOE since 1968. I loved my work. I loved the children. I worked hard to provide a good education for young children. Now I deserve the respect of being able to maintain the healthcare that I was told I would have when I retired.

Renee Dinnerstein (Brooklyn, 2022-03-13)

#618

We worked for this city at lesser pay than private industry because we were told that our health care was forever. Time not to let the city and our unions reneg onthis

David Goldstein (Brooklyn, 2022-03-13)

#619

I'm signing because I am irate that our benefits are being taken away from the retirees that were contractually promised to them. For some, the burden of increased fees to maintain wheat they were entitled to became intolerable. Shame on NYC and the politicians that supported this fiasco.

Martin Levine (New York, 2022-03-13)

#621

One reason I switched from working at an agency for blind and visually impaired individuals to teaching in the Department of Education was because of excellent benefits that included a pension and lifetime medical coverage. Mayor Adams, I believe that must have been a consideration of yours as well when you chose to work for NYPD Transit. You stayed in that agency, dedicated your career to service as did I to my career teaching. Wasn't the health Insurance Health Stabilization Fund established to offset increases/fluctuations in the cost of city employees health insurance? Where have those funds been disbursed? I urge you not to recommend an appeal to the judge's ruling against instituting the inferior coverage offered by Alliance Medicare Advantage and penalizing retirees who opt out of that plan.

Alison Brackman (Brooklyn, 2022-03-13)

#623

I believe in straight medicare and no penalty EMBLEM HEALTH FOR retirees

SANDI SALAS (NEW YORK, 2022-03-13)

#624

None of my Drs are taking the MAP PLAN. I can’t afford the almost $200 a month copay to stay with GHI. THIS PLAN IS UNFAIR TO RETIREES!!!

David Johnson (Staten Island, 2022-03-13)

#626

It is imperative that we keep that which we were promised!

Gail Kitt (Lake Worth, 2022-03-13)

#629

I am signing because I want to keep the health benefits that were promised to me when I retired.

Debra Bigelisen (New York, 2022-03-13)

#632

I am signing this because I want to keep the health insurance I have had since I turned 65 which would allow me to keep the doctors and services I have. "This old dog doesn't want to learn new tricks."

Helen Pine (New York, 2022-03-13)

#633

As a retired teacher from the DOE I want to keep my health insurance for life that was promised to me when I retired!

irene kopelman (Nanuet, 2022-03-13)

#634

My regular plan --Medicare plus GHI senior care is so much better for me than the plan they want us to take and their plan privatizes health care which is the wrong way to go. The mayor should know that.

Maxine Wolfe (New York, 2022-03-13)

#637

I took a cut in pay and left my job at Citibank for NYC benefits. It’s not right to take this benefit away from NYC retirees. We shouldn’t have to pay this penalty to keep our health care and we shouldn’t be forced onto a plan where we need pre-authorizations and will have a smaller pool if Drs to choose from.

Susan Rizzi (New York, 2022-03-13)

#640

Every person I know who is in a Medicare Advantage Plan only likes it until they get really sick, then the Advantage Plan hurts them rather than helps them. I am already old and sick. I cannot take the chance and you, Mr. Mayor, should not want me to put my life at risk. I deserve to keep the coverage I already have, without penalty.

Teresa Moran (New York City, 2022-03-13)

#641

I'm a senior on a fixed income!

Steven Weiner (New York, 2022-03-13)

#644

I’m happy with my current original Medicare plus GHI Senior Care.

Fred Cantor (Westport, 2022-03-13)

#645

I believe that the conditions that existed when I retired should remain in effect. Regular Medicare and GHI Senior care with no extra premiums.

JUDY HIRSCH (Lords Valley, PA, 2022-03-13)

#646

I want to be able to retain traditional Medicare with GHI as my supplemental insurance.

Debbie Iemmiti (Staten Island NY, 2022-03-13)

#649

I kept this school aide job even though it was a low paying position because I was always told I would have the benefits for life.

Florence Sclafani (Brooklyn, 2022-03-13)

#651

This attempt of making retirees the victims of poor decision making is unconscionable
!

Andrea Luster (Cornelius, 2022-03-13)

#653

I want to keep GHI Senior Care at no additional charge.

Joanne Tepedino (Staten Island, 2022-03-13)

#656

87 years old Medicare A & B for the last 30 Years

Howard Frank (Hollywood FL, 2022-03-13)

#657

Alphonse Farina

Alphonse Farina (Massapequa Park, 2022-03-13)

#659

I want to keep my original medicare and ghi senior care

JEAN RAYFIELD (West Orange, 2022-03-13)

#662

Because..........this fight is not over!

Sheila Levine (NY, 2022-03-13)

#663

I believe in Medicare for all, and not a privatized Medicare where middle people will pocket tens of millions of dollars while diminishing the care we receive and the payments doctors have earned.

Ronald P FIELDS (NEW YORK, 2022-03-13)

#664

I strongly disapprove of the forcable implementation of the MAP program and the retraction of the Medicare Senior Care program I was promised and contracted to at the time of my employment more than 20 years ago.

Vincent M. Serra (Briarcliff Manor,, 2022-03-13)

#665

I am an RN and a cancer survivor. I have read through the entire Medicare Advantage plus and have spoken to my Dr's who by the way are not accepting it. It stinks on every level.

Jacalyn Santise (Brooklyn, 2022-03-13)

#666

As retiree’s we feel the City should continue the not for profit medical plan and not have us pay extra for the policy we want. Not all doctors will take MAP and there would be gatekeepers when we need testing.

Elizabeth Scaparro (Millstone Township, 2022-03-13)

#669

The City is in a PREACH OF CONTRACT. When we retired, we were told that we would have HEALTH INSURANCE for life WITHOUT COST. Now they want to charge us. That's a BREACH OF Contract in my book.

Annmarie Zaffuto (Port Orange, 2022-03-13)

#672

I have been supportive of the legal intervention in this matter from inception. The attempt to coerce retirees into a health plan lacking in integrity or professional organization is unacceptable and cruel.

Donna D'Amico (Staten Island, 2022-03-13)

#673

I'm on a limited income and worked 20 plus years for benefits promised when I took oath. Plus my dr doesn't take that plan and would have to change doctors.

Frifda Oquendo (Laurelton, 2022-03-13)

#675

This is just wrong what the City is doing to us now that we need our Benefits the most now that we are aging Once a hero now a zero

Dennis Sheldrick (Levittown, 2022-03-13)

#682

Privatization of Medicare takes money from every taxpayer, hands it to wealthy businesses while getting fewer services in return, and will be the eventual death of the program and those who are in it.

Robert Nelson (Brooklyn, 2022-03-13)

#683

I think what they are trying to do to my promised retirement health benefits is disgraceful.

Barbara McDermott (Woodside, Queens, 2022-03-13)

#688

I’m a retiree who is disabled and soon will be on Medicare .

Kenneth Bowen (Goshen, 2022-03-13)

#689

I would. like for Mayor Adam's to NOT appeal the courts decision that was rendered by the courts in favor of the retirees from New Yok City regarding our health care.
Thank you much.
Sincerely,
Thomas Starks

Thomas Starks (Greensboro, North Carolina, 2022-03-13)

#693

I took a cut in pay for 25 years working for public school families. I dedicated my time, career and energy to learning and perfecting my craft in order to best serve the children and adults of NYC’s public schools. The least I can expect is the health care that I had during my tenure and was promised in my retirement years!

Sandy Einbinder (Brooklyn, 2022-03-13)

#695

I retired when I did in exchange for Health Care Benefits to take with mew into retirement. Had I believed that could be withdrawn from me later on, I might have pushed to stay and work another decade.

Cheryl Meyer (Jamaica, 2022-03-13)

#697

I want to keep the coverage I have.

Laura Romer (New York, 2022-03-13)

#699

We need your assistance to help senior workers, who also hope to help the city come up with the best and most affordable, effective health program, not waste more time being adversaries.

Thelma Loring (NYC, 2022-03-14)

#701

We want to keep our traditional Medicare and Union benefits . We’re very happy with it .

Lillian Prisco (Ponte Vedra, 2022-03-14)

#705

I want to keep my Original Medicare and Senior Care Suppliment. The MAPP is an inferior plan to Senior Care.

Carmine Vitale (Palm Bay, 2022-03-14)

#706

I do not want MAP. It is a horrible plan.

Donald Weiss (Wellington, 2022-03-14)

#707

I want to opt out and my husband's doctor doesn't take the plan and I have had bad experiences with Emprie Advantage care in the past. Please don't hurt people with disabilities and senior retirees. w

Dana Simon (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#709

I was a Police Officer for over 36years, and at 82 years of age, this change is not fair. I will be in 83 in less than 5 months and want what I was promised and had for over 18 years.

William Hasper (Moshes, NY 11955-1818, 2022-03-14)

#711

I’m a retiree on a fixed income. I’m also on disability and cannot work, due to a 9/11 illness. Changing my health insurance would be a financial burden on me and my family.
Thank You.

Edward Ferington (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#718

It is unconstitutional to change health benefits of retired personnel!

Judith Schwartz (New Rochelle, 2022-03-14)

#719

I believe as a retired NYC employee the City needs to keep its contractual promise

Robin Croudo (Boca Raton, 2022-03-14)

#723

The City raided the Health Insurance Stabilization Fund of $600 mil to give active employees raises. Now they want to balance the budget on the hides of the retired and disabled who are on fixed incomes? After years where we were denied raises and had to give back hard won benefits because of the City’s finances. We were promised that upon retirement we’d keep the same insurance for the rest of our lives. The MAPP is a travesty. There are no increased benefits to anyone except the City and the for-profit insurance entity. For retirees it is a tragedy. We are not able to make up the difference in the loss of our incomes to keep traditional Medicare as we were promised. And the MAPP pre-authorizations put our health in the hands of ignorant paper pushers only interested in denying treatment/tests to increase profit, rather than in the knowledgeable hands of doctors who have been intimately involved in our care.

Carole Cramer (New York, 2022-03-14)

#724

I am a retired teacher who deserves, after over 30 years working for the NYC Dept of Education, the same quality insurance I
have had for many years at no cost or to be switched to a new one (MAPP) that’s proposing dubious changes. I do not need a “Medicare Advantage Plus Program” committee to decide if my treatments, surgeries, etc. need to be approved by them without even seeing me. Let’s think about the never ending “bureaucracy” equals to Time and Death… I trust my own doctors who are specialists and they see me in person. BTW my own doctors DO NOT even KNOW about this MAPP. The City or the Union are looking at their own pockets, not at their members who gave so many years to our school children - many with LOW TEACHERS’ SALARIES, for years, which we had to fight to have a near or comparable salaries to those teaching beyond the NYC limits. Please, Mayor Adams, refocus your choices, and do not use your RETIRED CITY WORKERS to achieve Machiavellian goals. Thank you!

Lerida DeDios-O’Reilly (New York, 2022-03-14)

#725

I want the mayor to stop the appeal for out health coverage

Margaret Cummings (Murrells Inlet, 2022-03-14)

#726

I was forced to retire from the NYPD due to a line of duty injury. I need and trust my doctors and they have informed me that they will not accept the new proprosed plan.

Lee Sims (Marlboro,NJ, 2022-03-14)

#727

I’m signing because I want the health insurance I was promised when I became a teacher.

Hsin-Yu Wang (New York, 2022-03-14)

#731

I don't want to be forced into a new, unproven health insurance program that a least one of my doctors has already said he won't accept. There must be a better way to save money for the city than by taking away insurance protection for retirees.

Judith Rycar (Queens Village, 2022-03-14)

#732

I want the mayor to NOT take any further action that will change Medicare

Christopher Fusaro (Huntington station, 2022-03-14)

#733

I am signing to protest this unwarranted attack and breach of law and contract regarding my retiree benefits, all done behind the backs of retirees, without seeking our input, and keeping the matter secret until information leaked out last March. We already earned our benefits by putting in years of time. It is unconscionable to attack retirees, forcing us to make up for deficits which were created by misuse of the health care reserve fund - misused to fund pay raises. The judge already ruled in our favor, based on the law and without bias. Wasting time with appeals that will go nowhere is a waste of taxpayer dollars, and yet a further assault upon the rights of retirees.

Gary Peters (Boynton Beach, 2022-03-14)

#734

Save Our Health Benefits

Angelo Rodriguez (New York, 2022-03-14)

#735

I worked hard for a lower salary and the best lifelong health benefits

Laurie Santo (Merrick, 2022-03-14)

#737

I worked hard for 37 years, earning far less money than my friends with similar educations in the private sphere. I expected to retain my benefits upon retirement. Now, in my old age, when my health is in decline, I am fearful that my health insurance will go from government Medicare ( which I have paid into fir my whole life) will be turned over to a private for profit company. Please do not allow this to happen.

Marcia Pepper (Delray Beach Fl, 2022-03-14)

#738

Medicare part c is a disadvantage

Kathleen Burns (Merrick, 2022-03-14)

#742

Please do the right thing! Thank you

Gary Porto (Yorktown Heights, 2022-03-14)

#743

After thirty years of service to the citizens of NYC, it is disgusting that my wife’s coverage is under assault.

Barney Agate (Tamarac, 2022-03-14)

#750

Democrats should defend Medicare, NOT privatize it. And because the new plan may save the City some money BUT AT THE EXPENSE OF RETIREES HEALTH. You can't lower costs without decreases benefits to retirees.

Marvin Ciporen (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#751

I care about my medical coverage

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

#752

After working many years for the city, retirees should not lose the health care promised them.

Marilyn Schorr (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#754

Two of my three doctors won't accept the proposed MAPP. I want continuity of care. I worked for decades thinking I would have Medicare. I want it and I earned it.

Ilene Shifrin (New York, 2022-03-14)

#757

I believe that I am entitled to the health coverage that I currently have. I have received conflicting information whenever I contacted the Alliance. I am seriously suspicious of NYC Medicare Advantage Plus Plan.

Lorraine Boyhan (Queens, 2022-03-14)

#758

I am affected by this adversely.

William Weber (Stuart florida, 2022-03-14)

#762

I would like to keep my Medicare and GHI Senior Care benefits as they were promised by my former employer, the City of New York.
Please DO NOT APPEAL Judge Frank’s ruling.

Gerald Miller (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#764

Want to keep Senior Care

Susan Vaughn (NY, 2022-03-14)

#770

I want to keep the health care we bargained for.

Peter Miller (Lake Ronkonkoma, 2022-03-14)

#771

My wife has Progressive MS, and with over ten specialists, nursing supplies, PT, OT, etc., she needs to keep our Medicare m.

Thanks!

Steve Axelrod (Delray Beach, 2022-03-14)

#773

I’m signing this petition because I was told I would have health care for life and I do not want to be switched to an Advantage plan. I want readily available Medicare and do not want to wait for pre authorization for numerous procedures. My husband and I are on a fixed income and paying $382 per month would be a burden.

Sandra Ingerman (Boca Raton, 2022-03-14)

#774

Ann Feibel

Ann Feibel (Jupiter, 2022-03-14)

#778

I want to keep my current insurance promised to me upon retirement without premiums.

Lisa Breslof (Fort Lee, 2022-03-14)

#779

I believe this back door deal between the City, the Unions and the OLR is despicable. To treat elderly former employees of the city who gave our hearts and souls during our working years to the city for 35-50 years by taking away our Senior Care and place us in an inferior plan when we were promised the same benefits in retirement as in active duty is shameful, insincere, disrespectful, dishonest, a direct slap in our faces!

Scott Feltzin (NYC, 2022-03-14)

#780

Want to keep my traditional Medicare and senior care

Kevin Melfi (Staten Island, 2022-03-14)

#787

I am signing this petition because we cannot,nor should we, accept the Alliance program because our doctors are not accepting it.
It just isn’t fair that we should forced I to a Health Plan in our senior years that is inferior to what we already have

Donald Jones (Ocala, 2022-03-14)

#793

I am signing this petition to ask Mayor Adams not to appeal Judge Frank's decision concerning
the new Medicare Advantage Plus Plan.
The plan has many shortfalls and should be off the table.

VERA PAONE (BRONX, 2022-03-14)

#795

electra gaglia

electra gaglia (Albertson, 2022-03-14)

#797

I’m signing because the court has ruled fairly. Forcing us into a dubious healthcare plan by making us pay an opt-out penalty is unlawful. As a city taxpayer, I don’t want the mayor’s office and the corporation counsel to spend any more public funds promoting weak legal arguments. Retirees should not have to worry about this anymore. Promises were made to us— keep them. Drop the appeal.

Marcia Biederman (Brooklyn, NY, 2022-03-14)

#798

I want to keep traditional Medicare/Senior Care without having to pay a penalty to do so.

Cheryl Samuels (New York, 2022-03-14)

#799

Because I am sick of the city hurting the people who cared

james southard (Aurora, 2022-03-14)



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