Preserve NYC Employees' (Active & Retired) Healthcare

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#1408

I want to keep the insurance I had.

Esther Davidson (Woodmere, 2022-03-14)

#1411

We need to keep our present medical coverage.

MARVIN WOLFTHAL (FISHKILL, 2022-03-14)

#1412

My health concerns

Thomas Kelly (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1416

I worked for the city for 41 years, and I'm appalled at how the retirees are being treated!

Frank V Cassano (Lindenhurst, 2022-03-14)

#1420

I served NYC as a teacher and mentor from 1970 to 2004 and during my active service I was assured by contract after contract of health benefits through my retirement years.

Janet Lobel Adler (Jericho, 2022-03-14)

#1421

I want to keep my SENIOR care and not be forced INTO MEDICARE ADVANTAGE. MY DR WILL NOT TAKE IT AND I DONT WANT THIS GARBAGE MYSELF.

Lenny Rubinstein (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1422

NYC needs to honor its commitment to its retirees and protect them in their senior years!

Amy Coopersmith (Ozone Park, 2022-03-14)

#1426

Whenever the city negotiated our contracts , they had actuary’s take into consideration the future costs of our medical coverage and combined it into our raises
How can the city now violate the contracts they agreed with over the past years.
The city should should change the future retirements plan. This way it gives the employee a opportunity to plan their retirement expenses
The current retirees have an undue expense that was not planned when we retired
That’s not fair !

William Surace (Fresh Meadows, 2022-03-14)

#1428

Retired over 20 years and should not be forced into a new medical plan.

Benjamin Maggio (Florida, 2022-03-14)

#1431

I’m signing because I believe what the city is trying to do on the back of retirees is very unfair and it is wrong to target such a vulnerable group.

Barbara E Tunney (Mineola, 2022-03-14)

#1432

I'm signing because I believe it is dishonorable for the City to strip aged and infirm retirees of their traditional Medicare and push them into a clearly inferior Medicare Advantage plan. Mayor Adams, please reconsider appealing the judge's decision!

Deborah Palmeri (Fairfax, 2022-03-14)

#1433

You did not protect me as a union brother should.

Robert Doria (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1437

Health care benefits are vitally important to the retirees of the City public services. They contributes so many years for the City. Please bear in your mind that you are one of us.

Keng Cheng (Amherst, 2022-03-14)

#1440

I am not to pleased to have a company administer my medical needs that is under federal indictment for fraud.

john hennessey (Warwick, 2022-03-14)

#1443

GHI, Glue Cross and Blue Shield are not accepted in Pennsylvania.

Frankie Savarese (Albrightsville, 2022-03-14)

#1446

We need to protect our retirees. I served the citizens of this city for 23 years. Let us keep our Medicare and GHI Senior Care plans.

Richard Seibert (Massapequa, 2022-03-14)

#1448

I DO NOT want the advantage insurance.

Iinda Moleta (Staten island, 2022-03-14)

#1450

During my 26 years with the City of NY, we had numerous contract negotiations and health benefits were always a primary concern and we told and assured that our benefit package was secure.
During the years that we received 0 percent raises we sacrificed and struggled for those benefits and to have our unions without us knowing give up our benefits is unconscionable.

Robert Martin (Wantagh, 2022-03-14)

#1452

I do not want retirees deprived of their preferred healthcare.

Donna Rossler (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1453

I would like to keep the health cre benefits I was promised, when I retired.

Chris Cirino (Bay shore, 2022-03-14)

#1455

I feel that a crime is being committed against us by forcing retirees into the Medicare Advantage Plus for reduced medical coverage.

Deanna Adams (New York City, 2022-03-14)

#1457

I was promised that my current health care plan would remain in effect for the rest of my life.

Marilyn Cohen (Boynton Beach, 2022-03-14)

#1459

Stand with us

R Doremus (Middle Village, 2022-03-14)

#1461

I’m a retired NYC Corrections Officer and my insurance is very important to me and my family. As a disabled retired officer I don’t want to be in the MAP plan. I would not get any care from my Drs. I have now as they do not participate. Also, with health issues that many retirees have we need to stay with the plans we have. It is not only beneficial, but for health reasons better. We wouldn’t have to find new providers. Not fair to us financially or health wise. Do not appeal

Celeste Kenlaw (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1466

Ahad Farhang

Ahad Farhang (Boynton Beach, 2022-03-14)

#1467

I am a NYC retiree who needs to keep my existing health care

Kevin Connell (Ruskin, 2022-03-14)

#1469

I’m signing because I don’t want any changes to my healthcare plan.

Anthony Vallario (Myrtle Beach, 2022-03-14)

#1470

It's my life and I want to keep it healthy on mine and my doctor's terms, not some for-profit person sitting in a cubical in "Somewhere USA"
I do not want my Death Certificate to say
"Died As a Result of Prior Approvals"

Kenneth Montalbine (Palm Coast , FL, 2022-03-14)

#1471

It’s not fair to cut retirees benefita

Susan Ingravallo (Staten island, 2022-03-14)

#1472

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.

Michael Ogazon (Garden City, NY, 2022-03-14)

#1473

Do not want to be a part of a managed health care plan. I want regular Medicare.

kevin karmel (port saint lucie, 2022-03-14)

#1475

After years of service NYC employees deserve quality of life

Marjorie Jodrey (Old Bridge, 2022-03-14)

#1476

I don’t want to pay a penalty for keeping my current health insurance. I do not want to have Medicare Advantage which is run by a for profit company that makes its profit by trying to deny coverage as much as they can get away with. I don’t want to deal with the myriad pre authorizations. I want to have traditional Medicare with its huge network of doctors country wide.

Leslie Bartfeld (White Plains, 2022-03-14)

#1478

I believe in this and want to keep my current health care which I have had since I retired in 2005

Judith Schwartz (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1482

NYC "has reneged on their retiree health insurance coverage promise to us".

Kenneth Vogel (Stewart Manor, 2022-03-14)

#1488

The city needs to follow their promise to ALL NYC retirees to co to use their health benefits as promised in our contracts. I only make 1,200 in retirement every and it would be an extreme financial hardship for me to may $191.00 extra a month to maintain my current health benefits. Please do not appeal the judge’s decision.

Denise Kennedy Warwick (Cairo, 2022-03-14)

#1489

I'm signing this petition because I was promised these health benefits when I took my job. A job that required a bachelor's, a master's, and an additional 30 credits above that for a salary that was not comparable with those with the same qualifications in the business world. I did this for the benefits.

Anna Schneider (Delray Beach, FL, 2022-03-14)

#1493

I AM AGAIST THE MAPP
I AM INDIGNANT , INSULITED AND ANGRY AT MY UNION'S PARTICIPATION IN THIS ILLEGAL PLAN.. MY UNION THE UFT DID NOT REPRESENT MY INTEREST ,as a NYC RETIREE.

RENEE MANDELL (FORT LEE, 2022-03-14)

#1494

My treatment I receive are injections of gel one in my knees and I called and they are not sure if it is covered also my wife and daughter must keep Medicare so I can’t afford the 191.00 a month for each of us to keep our Medicare I am 79 and I retired in 1976 and my pension is very little. This will cause me a severe hardship

Harry Barclay (BOYNTON Beach, 2022-03-14)

#1495

I'm very concerned about my future health care

Frank Ancona (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1497

I don't want to be in a Medicare Advantage Plan.

Peter Allone (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1500

I do not approve of the new health care plan for retirees (MAPP).

John Farrell (Rockaway park, 2022-03-14)

#1501

I need my traditional medicare and senior care GHI.

Sarah Shapiro (brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1508

I want to keep the health care coverage i have now and not have to pay for it. This is the agreement i made with the city when I retired.

Mark Hayes (Staten Island, 2022-03-14)

#1509

I’m signing because putting us into an inferior health plan after we worked for decades is unfair. We were promised OUR health plan for life not just any health plan. There are seniors that still don’t know this is happening. Stop the appeal!

Cindy Cincotta (Staten Island NY, 2022-03-14)

#1511

I want to stop the erosion of my health care benefits in my retirement years.

susan lofranco (brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1514

I am signing because given our medical issues and geographic location my husband and I must remain with GHI Senior Care. Relying completely on Social Security and minimal pension it would be extremely difficult for us to afford the approximately $5,000 it would cost us to continue with GHO Senior Care but it would have to be done.

Jennifer Gitto (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1516

My husband is a retired Special Education teacher. I am a Glaucoma patient and as a result I am required to see an Ophthalmologist more often that regular patients which is not acceptable with MAP

Tina Shapiro (The Villages, 2022-03-14)

#1518

Mr Eric adams needs to stop his appeal against city retiree, 😤 he is hurting us and unions pulling out of de blasio scam.

ATEF HELMY (Staten island, 2022-03-14)

#1520

I wish to keep my current health insurance- Medicare and Senior Care.

Leonore Greenberg (Boca Raton, 2022-03-14)

#1531

We all need solid health care benefits as was promised to us

Robert Kazanowitz (Howard Beach, 2022-03-14)

#1532

I will be adversely affected by being forced onto an inferior health plan, which was not what I’ve expected and paid for my entire career with NYC. I’ve never been a union member and shouldn’t have to pay for union raises with my health care. NYC should find another way to finance union benefits that’s not off the backs of retirees.

Nicoletta Caferri (Northport, 2022-03-14)

#1538

Please save our Medicare. We worked for many years and we were assured of the same health coverage in our retirement. We are not interested in a MAP.

Joy Lovinger (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1539

I am happy with my current medical coverage and my doctors accept it.

Kathleen Spiegel (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1540

I worked for NYCHHC for 33+ years. I made less as an RN than my counterparts in the private sector. I was promised excellent, free benefits upon retirement. Please keep your promise that I counted on.

April Stern (Bayside, 2022-03-14)

#1542

Medicare Advantage is not a good program it’s worse than what we already have

Ralph Brawley (Durango, 2022-03-14)

#1549

What is being for to retiree's and seniors is unjust and unfair.

cosmo margalotti (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1552

Mayor Adams,
I am deeply disappointed in your decision to move NYC retirees into a MAP. My retired NYPD husband recently died from 911 lung disease. When he died I lost his social security, pension and health benefits. I am a retired HHC nurse administrator who never had the benefit of a union. If I had, perhaps I would have received some form of compensation for the daily mandatory overtime during my 45 years serving NYC. I served with the expectation of maintaining the healthcare I was promised on retirement. Yet you and unions who never represented me to bargain for my future.
Now in my not so golden years when I need health insurance the most I have to choose between a privatized for profit insurance which is not accepted by my providers or to pay $194 a month plus new co-pays just to keep what I have now for free while living on a reduced fixed income in a time of rising inflation and a skyrocketing cost of living. It is unconscionable to force NYC retirees into an inferior healthcare plan that requires prior authorization for almost all medical care and tests. This sir amounts to elder abuse!

Robin Haag (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1556

The city and the union brass have no right to change our medical benefits especially as we become more vulnerable with age.
I have a right to my benefits as they exist

Joseph Zarba (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1568

I want to keep what health insurance i currently have.

THOMAS BOEMI (Staten Island, 2022-03-14)

#1569

I can’t afford to opt out and pay an additional $391/month to keep what I already have.

Joseph Maresca (Staten Island, 2022-03-14)

#1570

I have no doubt at all that I want to keep my traditional Medicare Health insurance.

Hildy Lazarus (New York City, 2022-03-14)

#1573

I want to be informed of all new updates

Shelly Smith (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1575

I am a city employee retiree and I want to keep my current health benefits without any additional charges or co-payments

Vivian Hershfield (Oakland Gardens, 2022-03-14)

#1577

I want to stay on GHI senior care .Contributed into Medicare for 40 years

Jay Feltham (Pomona, 2022-03-14)

#1578

I am against changinging my healthcare to the new MAP.

debra greenman (NYC, 2022-03-14)

#1584

Mayor shouldn’t do this

Risa Johnson (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1586

I do not want my health plan to change

Brian Kominoski (Staten Island, 2022-03-14)

#1587

How dare they do this to retirees, they promised us they would never touch our pensions.

Jeanette Bernstein (Windermere, 2022-03-14)

#1589

I do not want any changes to my medical plan. The new changes are unfair, the cost to opt out are unacceptable.

John Maida (Brooklyn, 2022-03-14)

#1593

As a retiree I stand to lose medical processes, doctors and benefits under the regular Medicare plan, as I have enjoyed since coming of age, and which were promised to me and suffer financially and emotionally if the switch to NYC Medicare Advantage Plus is forced upon us.

Beatrice Segev (New York, 2022-03-14)

#1595

I want the same coverage with no deductibles as promised when I applied for job. 35 years of service

Vincent Sisto (new york, 2022-03-14)

#1598

I have dedicated 30 years of my life to NYC 's children and deserve what was promised without any changes. This isn't Russia so don't treat us as oppressed citizens living in a communist/ dictator country the way Putin does to his citizens every day.

I'm signing because City Retirees, who this directly affects now and in the future, have worked very hard and have dedicated many years to the city- in often socially & economically difficult times. We worked on the ground with the people, by the people, & for the people. We stayed when so many others abandoned the children and this city.
We all deserve what we were promised and this current proposed plan is not what was promised. We deserve a (free) option/choice without penalty.
If you want to save, then make that part of your negotiations w/current city employees, and save money for the city there in their current health plans, where they have a choice as of now and are not obligated into something they don't want.

Irene Cruz (Bronx, 2022-03-14)



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