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Traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage? Some retirees aren’t allowed to choose
Fortune Well BY Richard Eisenberg These shifts to Medicare Advantage can save money for the companies and state and local government...
Jun 10, 2024


Appeals panel rebuffs city’s Medicare effort
The Chief By Richard Khavkine Municipal retirees notch another court victory, but Adams administration will appeal Retired New York City...
May 20, 2024


Harckham and Over 200 State Municipal Retirees Call for Healthcare Benefit Protections
NYC Senate By Pete Harckham Published: April 16, 2024 “This is about a fundamental issue of fairness” Albany, NY – New York State Senator...
Apr 16, 2024


Mayor kills option through which NYC retirees could keep traditional Medicare
EMS1 By Chris Sommerfeldt Published: March 23, 2023 NEW YORK — As his administration moves ahead with shifting retired city workers into...
Mar 22, 2024


NYC Retirees Stand Strong With Ousted DC 37 Officers
Work-Bites by Joe Maniscalco Michelle Keller, Stu Eber and Neal Frumkin (l to r) join New York City municipal retirees fighting the...
Mar 7, 2024


NYC Retirees Mobilise to Save Their Traditional Medicare Coverage
City and State NewYork By Marianne Pizzitola and Gregory N. Heires New York City is Ground Zero in the nationwide fight against...
Mar 4, 2024


Retired Teachers Seek Union Shakeup to Dodge Medicare Advantage
New York Focus By Sam Mellins In the New York City teachers union, anger over a plan to privatize retiree health care could send a...
Feb 26, 2024


Retirees to NYC Council Members: Do Not Be ‘Bamboozled’ By Medicare Advantage
Work-Bites by Joe Maniscalco NYC Municipal Retirees rally on the steps of City Hall before the start of the Jan. 9 hearing on changing...
Jan 14, 2024


An Interview with Marianne Pizzitola
WestView News By J. Taylor Basker Published: September 25, 2023 In Sicilian legend. Aetna, a beautiful nymph, who inhabited the island...
Sep 25, 2023


The Chief
September 15, 2023 Labor officials ‘less than truthful’ on the Medicare bill, say ex-union leaders Hundreds of retired municipal workers...
Sep 15, 2023


Reps. Malliotakis, Torres introduce bipartisan bill blocking Mayor Adams’ Medicare Advantage switch for NYC retirees
New York Daily News by Chris Sommerfeldt Published: Sept 14, 2023 A bipartisan legislative push is afoot on Capitol Hill to prohibit all...
Sep 14, 2023


NYC Labor Day Parade Showdown: Retirees Challenge Union Leaders On Medicare Advantage Push
Work-Bites by Joe Maniscalco NYCOPSR President Marianne Pizzitola engages with NYS AFL-CIO President Mario Cilento [l] and NYC Central...
Sep 11, 2023


35 Retired Union Leaders Defend NYC Bill to Protect Medicare
Work-Bites by Joe Maniscalco NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees President Marianne Pizzitola is keeping a close tally on where...
Sep 8, 2023


Judge temporarily blocks Mayor Adams from switching NYC retirees to Medicare Advantage
New York Daily News by CAYLA BAMBERGER A trial court judge has temporarily blocked Mayor Adams from switching retired city workers to a...
Sep 6, 2023


‘It’s Really a Betrayal’: NYC Mayor Touts Civil Service Jobs While Retirees Are Left on the Sidewalk
Work-Bites by Joe Maniscalco Retired civil servants opposing the City of New York’s campaign to privatize municipal health care gather...
Aug 29, 2023


Retirees Crash Adams Event to Blast Medicare Advantage Plan
The City By Claudia Irizarry Aponte DC37 Retirees Association leader Neal Frumkin joined a protest outside a Sunset Park public sector...
Aug 28, 2023


The City Council owes retirees Medicare choice: Let people pick if they want to switch to Medicare Advantage - NY Daily News
New York Daily News by Gary Altman New York City municipal retirees protest changes to their Medicare in Lower Manhattan on Thursday,...
Aug 19, 2023


NYC judge kills Eric Adams’ bid to overhaul Medicare for 250K retired workers
New York Post By Social Links for Bernadette Hogan and Social Links for Kyle Schnitzer Pubished: Aug 11, 2023 A judge’s ruling Friday put...
Aug 11, 2023


New York City retirees score major victory in Medicare Advantage fight
City And State Newyork By Annie McDonough A retiree attends a rally at City Hall on July 13. Published: Aug 11, 2023 A state Supreme...
Aug 11, 2023


Judge ‘Permanently’ Bans Medicare Advantage Switch for City Retirees
The City By Claudia Irizarry Aponte Mayor Eric Adams spoke at City Hall about the cost of housing and feeding migrants, Aug. 9, 2023....
Aug 11, 2023


D.C. Welcomes NYC Retirees as Heroes in the Fight to Save Medicare
Work-Bites by Bob Hennelly Published: July 27, 2023 The New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees [NYCOPSR] was given a...
Jul 27, 2023


Medicare Disadvantage For City Government Retirees
West View News By J.Taylor Basket and Jesse Kasowitz Medical insurance issues are now making NYC Government retirees sick. NYC retirees...
Jul 21, 2023


Barron, city retirees temporarily win big in legal battle over Medicare coverage
Amsterdam News by ARIAMA C. LONG Report for America Corps Member / Amsterdam News Staff A judge granted city retirees a temporary...
Jul 13, 2023


What you need to know about NYC retirees’ health care fight
City And State NewYork By ANNIE MCDONOUGH A Manhattan judge temporarily blocked the city’s long pursued and controversial plan to switch...
Jul 11, 2023
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