I defunded retiree health plan. I ended their
#medicare
. I don’t care I increased their costs or can’t see their doctors. I told them it’s cheaper it’s not. I told them they will have better benefits they won’t. 😜 my name is Eric Adams
@NYCMayor
and I don’t care you served NYC
Thank you
@JamaalBowmanNY
let’s do this together and change this horrible federal statute that allows for “seamless transition” into Medicare advantage!
@FDNYchic
we shouldn’t help privatize Medicare and enrich Aetna with taxpayer money at the expense of
@nycretirees
& Americans
Today we stand in solidarity with the
@NYCRetirees
demanding the end of widespread privatization of Medicare and restoring of their traditional Medicare plans by
@NYCgov
.
Irony. Your lawyer, calling you to tell you you won the TRO. While you are standing in the lobby of a CVS for quiet. We love the legal team!! Now the
@NYCCouncil
must pass intro 1099 to protect us to reinforce the courts finding so NO council or retiree has to go through this
Listen up
@UFT
@DC37nyc
you can’t bring hundreds of people to the street because they will learn from us what you did. Your goal is divide and conquer. Our is unity and transparency. We will tell union workers what you did to us. They have a conscience
We sent this to every
@NYCCouncil
member. 15 viewed it. So now we share it with everyone and will share a new one exposing MLC lies Every. Single. Day. And there are plenty coming. Unions do not bargain for CURRENT retirees. They stole from them
Today the NYC retirees did the “Jeanie Dubnow Point” to
@NYCMayor
- you are being disrespectful to us seniors lying and stealing our Medicare. Reneging on a promise of healthcare for decades. Show some RESPECT Mayor- especially if you want it back
#JeaniePoint
@StevenWishnia
Retirees, you asked which of your CM were supporting Intro 1099 and who doesn’t support retirees. Here you go.
@NYCCouncil
now let’s reach out to them and explain how a court found we would be irreparably harmed and now is a good time to do the right thing
.
@UFT
Michael. I know you don’t believe it but it’s a fact.
#medicareAdvantage
is NOT
#Medicare
& lots of experts will tell you that. I don’t trust you to negotiate an ant farm never mind my healthcare. You will harm people because this plan creates a barrier to care. You say 🧵
A tale of two Councilmen vying for the same Brooklyn district filled with Retirees. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, I chose the path that protects NYC RETIREES. Taking the road less travelled because it’s the right thing to do”
@CMAriKagan47
@JustinBrannan
😳
@NYCMayor
&
#union
lawyer arguing in court they have the right to strip retirees from
#medicare
& force them on
#medicareadvantage
like they are doing us a favor while privatizing a public health benefit given to retirees in 1967 while arguing it’s better
12 members of the council including
@CMAriKagan47
voted no on the budget because it did not provide for critical funding - LIKE RETIREE MEDICARE like it had for 57 yrs before they let the unions steal our funding. Thank you for taking a stand! 💪
Thank you
@THECITYNY
for following our fight! And for speaking with a labor historian! Now if we can teach our labor leaders to not sell off retirees, we made history. We miss Victor Gotbaum
@PAGotbaum
he would have taught them better!
Thank you
@UFOA854
executive board for recognizing this tremendous victory! We are protecting All, New, York, City, Retirees so they can remain on federal Traditional
#Medicare
❤️ and not be forced into inferior healthcare
Taylor allows unions to collectively bargain FOR THOSE IN THEIR UNITS FOR Wages, hours & work conditions. Retirees don’t have those & they’re not in unions this they don’t bargain and can’t be bargained for. Pass Intro 1099 & let a judge decide it’s illegal. 🧵1/2
@JustinBrannan
.
@NycRetirees
need a council person who has their back. So far,
@CMAriKagan47
has been there with us from the beginning. Protecting us like the council has for 57 years. Where do YOU stand? Are you supporting retired labor and signing Intro 1099 or aren’t you?
The Common Sense Caucus posted their press release yesterday. This is our response. We thank them, but doing nothing is not support. WE ASKED
@NYCCouncil
TWO THINGS. They remember the easy one. We needed a path to litigation because we didn’t know who to trust to help us
.
@NYCMayor
this IS what you are doing to retirees. You want to sell off a benefit WE earned to fill a PEG we didn’t cause. In 1997 Senior care cost $88 in 2023 its $200. That is NOT unsustainable - and WE earned it
Because
@NYCMayor
wants nothing but the best for his senior citizens and disabled retirees and 9/11 responders, let’s give them an inferior plan that’s been downgraded because people who have it hate it
#aetna
lost a star
Here is a list of City Council members who are not supporting
#Intro1099
who receive funding and political assistance printing mailers etc from
@DC37nyc
and
@UFT
Come join our rally! CM
@CharlesBarron12
@Lynn4NYC
@InnaVernikov
will be introducing legislation to protect retirees keep A supplemental plan! Thank you for sponsoring this! ❤️❤️❤️ is YOUR council member joining as a co-sponsor?
Proud to join
@NycRetirees
with
@JoannAriola32
@VickieforNYC
and many community leaders at their rally and press conference regarding Intro 1099 to preserve their affordable & accessible healthcare they were promised for decades. 1/2
And retirees are disappointed in YOU for selling us off to enrich a refund YOU helped Misuse. You tried to teal our Medicare. Turn in your union card and stop attacking retired union labor and
@NYCCouncil
doing the right thing: Fixing YOUR mess
We are disappointed that
@JustinBrannan
has decided to join a bill that takes away the fundamental right of workers to negotiate their healthcare. Perhaps as Chair of the Council Finance Committee, CM Brannan can show us how he intends to fund the $600M annual cost of Int. 1099.
Where is the
@NYCCouncil
? We keep winning but keep getting screwed! When are YOU going to make a difference, because YOU can be the hero in this story!
Cold facts. Our unions sold retirees off to enrich themselves and keep THEM premium free. That includes active workers that are non union like council members and mayors.
@NycRetirees
@CMAriKagan47
And Ari Kagan. Hoping they will support Intro 1099 along with other CM who keep telling us “I’ve got your back!” It’s time for ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS. Represent Retirees in their fight for THEIR MEDICARE.
"Medicare Advantage takes the problems of private health insurance and imports them into Medicare, infecting our best and most effective healthcare system with the ills of putting profits before patients." -
@RepKatiePorter
#ReclaimMedicare
Well
@UFT
Tom, if you weren’t stealing benefits from retirees and selling them a lie, they would have more “decorum.” “Gaslighting” retirees to please your boss also gets our ire. We see you 👀. Decorum returns when you you act like a real leader.
He was a union member for 30years
@UFANYC
@ufoa
and lives in
@JustinBrannan
district . He came to see if
@CMAriKagan47
would help him. He feels railroaded. He paid his part of duty, he served for 30 years.
@NYCMayor
is reneging on the City part of the deal
Good morning
@HenryGarrido17
@DC37nyc
today is a new day and perfect for redemption. Don’t make any stupid decisions today.
#NYCRetirees
are watching. It’s so easy to do the right thing & yes, stop stealing our
#Medicare
.
📣Join
@CMAorg
in support of the Older Americans Bill of Rights, a resolution introduced by
@DorisMatsui
&
@janschakowsky
that identifies & establishes fundamental rights that every older American & their family deserve.
Privatized Medicare plans are harming patients by delaying and denying care.
Yesterday, we joined lawmakers, seniors, and people with disabilities for a rally to
#ReclaimMedicare
.
We started a trend. Organizing retirees to fight our former unions to realize they were sold the Brooklyn Bridge. When did a NYer believe they could get something better for nuthin’? 🤦🏽♀️ ask Michael Mulgrew & Henry Garrido
@UFT
@DC37nyc
retirees know
@NYCMayor
You’re making history as the first mayor to rob an earned and paid for healthcare benefit from senior citizens and the disabled. Mayors LaGuardia, Wagner and Lindsay wanted retirees protected, you sell them a Pinto and call it a Mustang. That must make you feel like a big man
The
@NYCMayor
appealed our Preliminary Injunction. If anyone needs any further proof the
@NYCCouncil
is forcing retirees to protect themselves you’re nuts. Even after the lawyer for Aetna downplayed a death due to
#prior
authorization as “just one” sign
#intro1099
.
@NYCSpeakerAdams
your office told a retiree to call her US Rep instead of your Ofc handling a NYCERS issue. This is not federal! This is a constituent issue with a city agency! BTW hold time was over an hour when I hung up. So I guess
@NYCCouncil
abandoned retirees
“You are a THIEF!”
@nycmayor
was greeted with some jeers from retirees protesting city’s plan for healthcare.
()
He also did not answer Q on federal government criticizing New York’s handling of asylum seeker influx
@NYCSpeakerAdams
@Teamsters
@UPS
You’ve never supported any of our court wins against the Mayor from trying to steal our Medicare. You’ve done nothing either and council members advise you threatened them if they help us too. But you support labor. We are retired labor. Where is the support?
Henry Garrido
@DC37nyc
, Retirees denounce your thuggery. You steal healthcare from senior citizens & disabled, lie & mislead your own membership, & then threaten the City Council. Your insecurity is showing. Grow up or step aside, We need Great Leaders!
Hear from Brooklyn Residents, retirees, constituents - how their Drs will not take the Aetna Medicare advantage plan being forced on us by our former unions and the
@NYCMayor
while
@NYCCouncil
or
@NYCSpeakerAdams
has not moved our legislation
Nyc retirees were invited to a town hall with District 29 candidate
@Ethanforthecity
it was a great night where he told us he signed our Pledge to support Retiree healthcare and discussed district issues with constituents. thank you Ethan for being in the conversation
We care about our retirees. It’s a sad day when
@NYCSpeakerAdams
prevents our bill from moving & intimidates others to support
@NYCMayor
instead of protecting retirees from losing their drs & subject them to delays and denials of care. If Aetna was so great it would be a choice
Fireman Dan Stromer is 97. He was
@UFANYC
for almost 27 hrs, awarded honors by the French Government for his service during WWII
@NYCCouncil
@NYCSpeakerAdams
is refusing to help retirees preserve their traditional Medicare. He has to change drs because his doesn’t accept 1/2
Liar liar pants on fire. If we found three unions that were misled about this letter, one never giving permission to use their union or the leaders name, WE WILL FIND MORE. MLC HAS NO CREDIBILITY.
@FDNYchic
was right their INSECURITIES are showing 🤥
If they were honest and truly cared about people not profits the entire industry including
@Aetna
would stop this practice. People need access to healthcare with no obstacles. Their goal of million$ salaries and corporate enrichment over life isn’t inline with humanity
In its soft reporting on the predator Medicare Advantage industry,
@axios
left out how it ripped off taxpayers for $75 billion & kills thousands a year by denying or delaying care.
@FDNYchic
@NycRetirees
@alaw202
Had a very productive meeting with
@NycRetirees
.These are proud ppl who have served our city for decades as police officers, firefighters, teachers, etc. And now they are forced to switch from their traditional Medicare to Aetna. I will fight for them! 1/2
Sadly
@NYCMayor
hasn’t said hey let me give that annoying retiree an hour to convince me we are making a mistake. Like
@CMKevinCRiley
he might find her shoes pretty fly😂 they sure got mileage! He’s afraid
@FDNYchic
might be right- that’s why. Right?
@NYCMayor
The difference a year makes. Candidate Adams vs
@NYCMayor
. Money, influence and he’s ok to sell off workers who gave their lives to this city while he covers up city negligence on 9/11 and refuses to release the records- then strips our Medicare benefits to expedite our death
The only known antidote for organized greed is ORGANIZED LABOR. As a former AFTRA member & shop steward, I'll always be a
@sagaftra
member and I stand in solidarity with the union’s 160,000 impacted members.👊🏼🎬🚫
January 9th,
@CnDelarosa
held a hearing to introduce legislation to pass costs to retirees & allow our former unions to force us into one plan in violation of 60 yrs of past practice & promises.
@NYCSpeakerAdams
gave $1k to 24 CM’s beginning January 9.Only Four support
#intro1099
This. Because the
@NYCMayor
thinks we are stupid. Rides to a Dr that doesn’t accept the plan. A gym pass in exchange for a quality cancer specialist. You don’t need that transplant specialist here’s a wellness incentive🤬 THIS IS GREED & ELDER ABUSE
To NYC Council- YOU can fix this. Mary Pinkett and Peter Vallone were always there for us. We need our modern day hero’s. Don’t make us spend our small pensions to protect ourselves from mayoral greed when you can do this now and end the stress and anxiety seniors have over this
Brooklyn residents being heard by
@CMAriKagan47
that their Drs will not accept the Aetna Medicare Disadvantage plan being shoved down our throats by a System of greed. will
@JustinBrannan
find money in the budget to keep us on Medicare? Like has been since 1967 with 12-126?
Harry Nespoli says… all the governments are doing it now! Like that supposed to make it OK! Mom used to say if all your friends jump off a bridge or you got a jump with them?
#Nyc
#labor
lost their compass
#greed
they sold off Retirees to keep their own health care free
@NYCCouncil
@Lynn4NYC
And this is why having traditional Medicare is so important! Because many specialists, including hospitals, do not except Medicare advantage. And we have Retirees undergoing cancer treatment and transplants, whose doctors and hospitals don’t except Aetna disadvantage plan.
Sometimes we forget.
@NYCSpeakerAdams
we have asked
@CnDelarosa
for a hearing on Intro 1099 & we’re told you have allow it 😳 is that a new rule? Retirees are calling for ☀️.
Lol.
#sundaySchool
😂 NYC labor needs strong smart leaders. Sadly, if you’re ok. With selling off retired labor to enrich yourself… it’s time for education. But don’t look at
@UFT
Michael Mulgrew, he got left back when he negotiated a raise on the backs of all workers &retirees
Because the
@uft
started lying about the pot of money leadership took was “fungible” now gaslighting that the bill to protect retirees from their own former unions robbing them blind is illegal. UFT needs new leadership
#BigLie
protect retirees sign
#intro1099
And let’s remind Tom Murphy
@UFT
in 2001 you came to the hearing on Intro 580A uninvited & sat with Sandra Merch who read
@rweingarten
testimony to support retirees. You can’t support a retiree benefit then and say affirming a 60 yr old benefit is illegal now.
@NycRetirees
Yes we have retirees in rural areas, this came from one. The
@NYCMayor
plan only requires 51% to be in a network area. We already know if coverage deserts. Protect traditional
#medicare
@UFT
Your unchecked power has you committing all unions and retirees to slashing health costs by 10% this year. You don’t slash a cost and increase benefits right Mikey?
@CnDelarosa
CM, by you NOT stopping the Medicare Advantage plan, YOU are doing the same thing as Bob. Aetna shouldn’t profit off retirees and you shouldn’t be letting them at the expense of our lives and earned health benefits
.
@NYCSpeakerAdams
@JustinBrannan
@EricDinowitzNYC
there is nothing like facts to rain on a disinformation campaign. The contract even acknowledges there’s regional areas without adequate network providers & they still can operate the plan. You pay if U can & pray 4 Reimbursement
@katie_honan
@NYCMayor
.
@NYCMayor
steals
#medicare
from our retirees & continues to appeal his losses in Court when facts show
#medicare
DisAdvantage plans are inferior to Traditional Medicare & our retirees would be harmed. There are no savings, costs are higher & Drs don’t accept it. He ignores facts
This is criminal behavior that a labor union would use members dues to advocate against former union members to force them into an inferior plan while sitting on the board of an organization like this
And so you are aware
@UFANYC
@UFOA854
@UFT
@DC37nyc
THE PROVIDERS DONT HAVE TO ACCEPT AETNA! And reimbursement is subject to aetna determining it’s medically necessary and if NOT, it’s not included in the Max out of pocket you tout.
#yourescrewed
.
@Allscripts
It’s despicable of you to encourage people to change their insurance to a garbage
#medicare
#disadvantage
plan on a portal meant to help people!
@NorthwellHealth
“extra benefits not included in Medicare” is primer language for MA many drs & hospitals don’t accept it