Retired FDNY, organizing
@NYCretirees
to fight back from being forced into
#Medicare
Disadvantage by
@nycmayor
. I enjoy my English garden & restoring my old VWs
Why is
@NYCMayor
Eric Adams forcing NYC retirees into Medicare DISAdvantage plans they don’t want and didn’t ask for?
Listen to NYC retirees—including
@NycRetirees
President Marianne Pizzitola, (
@FDNYchic
)—as they share what they’re up against.
Henry Garrido
@DC37nyc
this is conduct unbecoming union labor. Stop stealing our healthcare and telling everyone you’re doing us a favor! You should have been fighting for us militantly instead of getting into bed with management. Labor fights to protect itself.
@NycRetirees
Meet Ira. He worked for NYC for 34 years & he earned his Senior Care.
@NYCCouncil
@NYCMayor
can you tell Ira you don’t care that his Drs won’t accept
@Aetna
or he should suffer from denials of care because Aenta needs a profit? Traditional Medicare we paid for should stay!
@thehousered
Did you know
@NycRetirees
have been fighting
@NYCMayor
for 3 years trying to protect our healthcare he clawed back from retirees and the disabled! The cost? Less than 6/10 of 1% of the budget. We have won 9 times in court including two unanimous appeals decisions & he still fight
Dear
@NYCMayor
we want you to hear us.
#medicareAdvantage
is NOT
#Medicare
and our care should not be in the hands of some panel the MLC thinks can determine our care. That job belongs to our doctors. “Savings” doesn’t belong in health care, this is our lives
@CnDelarosa
@C_Sommerfeldt
@NYCMayor
Everyone gets a leg up other than retirees who served this city for decades & took lower wages to do it. I guess if I was a club owner or politician I might get a meeting with the Mayor to protect the very people he is supposed to. Now that he’s not a candidate he walks it back😡
@nypost
Respect? He striped retirees of Medicare in a bait n switch, refuses to meet with us since he took office, & lies about how great Aetna is that he’s forcing seniors in. Respect? Communication? He fails to take his own advice, stole our healthcare & won’t talk to us
@NycRetirees
@NYCMayor
@WBLS1075NYC
Bait N Switch Mayor steals Medicare, a public health benefit from senior citizens & disabled and lies about the crappy plan he traded it for. We earned our benefits. He lied and flip flopped. We sued and won 6 times. After each win he schemed another way to steal our benefits.
Listen up! Our unions have a $600M hole in the Health insurance stabilization funds that pays active workers premium. The hole is due to the
@UFT
taking $1B from it for raises among other things NOT health related (the funds purpose). So they stole from
@nycretirees
🧵1/2
For
@NYCMayor
to slam Jeanie Dubnow for perceived disrespectful pointing when he disrespected HER…then ignoring
@NycRetirees
since he became mayor, flip flopped on us after election, robbing us of Medicare till a judge stopped him, we do the
#JeaniePoint
#RESPECT
#seniors
Good afternoon
@UFT
! You blocked me on
@Meta
but…. I still 👀 youuuuuuuuuu😘 did you really think you stopped me from seeing you? 😂
since you now acknowledge there’s a budget surplus, you shouldn’t be privatizing Medicare for seniors & disabled retired unionists And DEFINITELY
Patrick
@NYCPBA
we have fought hard protecting NYPD Medicare Retirees!
@nycretirees
are thankful for this major victory and know there is more fight ahead. No greedy mayor should take away an earned and vested benefit from a retiree! ❤️
We filed! A major appellate win last week (left hook) and filled a class against the city today (right hook) !!!
@NycRetirees
warriors protecting ourselves!!
Dear
@EricDinowitzNYC
, one of your constituents, and Retiree advises you are accusing me of lying. Please clarify what exactly I am lying about. I would like to know since you’re accusing me of something. We fact check. And cite and source our information. Let’s talk.
The dangers of what the mayor is doing to
@NycRetirees
here is one. In all but 4 states you can’t go from a DisAdvantage plan like
@aetna
and into a Supplement like senior care without underwriting good luck getting approved and costs will be high. We know we tried
Join us and
@Loc100fightback
demanding our unions stop forcing us into
#MedicareAdvantage
plans! We want traditional
#medicare
! Not managed privatized health care where our Drs don’t have the final say. Prior authorization. Networks. Silver sneakers is NOT an enhancement!
Retired NYC public employees’ long-term health & retirement security at risk from
@NYCMayor
move to change health plan, says
#AARPNY
State Director
@BethNY
. City Hall must keep promises made to dedicated NYC public workers years ago. NO CUTS TO HEALTH CARE
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!
Because
@NYCMayor
and
@NYCSpeakerAdams
should be thinking of their future and what it would be like not having access to a cancer specialist nationwide because they forced their retirees into Medicare Advantage.
We did it.
#RetiredLaborStrong
because when your union who was supposed to protect you steals your Medicare for their own raise, and the elected who were supposed to protect you abandon you, you start movement to protect yourself.
#organize
#retiredUnion
You are either supporting your Retirees or you are not. Where do you stand
@UFANYC
@UFOA854
? Not saying the name of our organization means you do not recognize what we are doing to protect Retirees access to Medicare and supplemental benefits we earned and paid for.
#SayOurName
Dear unions, if an insurance company is telling you they will put your retirees in a plan that’s like
#Medicare
for free and has “added benefits” like
#silverSneakers
& rides, ask them if the
#BrooklynBridge
comes with it & walk away. You’re being lied to.
#YW
Xoxo,
@NycRetirees
When retired firefighters
@UFANYC
@UFOA854
invite me to breakfast at 0900 you go because I love these guys! Brooklyn Breakfast Club is in the house too! ❤️
#RMA
breakfast We all agree Medicare DisAdvantage is NOT
#Medicare
🙌 don’t diminish our healthcare-we’re retired union!
@NYCMayor
And you’re robbing seniors or their health care ?? Why would balance the budget on the backs of the very people who gave this city so much? We want our Medicare!!
@NycRetirees
@OsseChi
Yes and
@NycRetirees
are going to fight for their lives until
#medicare
is protected and so are we. We earned our health benefits. We’ve won in court 7 times. Where have you been? Support
#intro1099
Thank you
@stucknation
@WorkBitesNews
for reporting on how retiree healthcare is being sold off to finance our former unions and how city council members are uniting to protect us.
.
@NYWFP
@NycRetirees
have been working on protecting the retired city workers from having their Medicare stripped from them. We have been asking for a hearing and been ignored. Healthcare is a human right. Join us
Congratulations 🎊 to Nassau County
#CSEA
Local 830 on their TRO against Nassau County from changing their health insurance! That’s 2 in 2 days. When you mess with a retiree, you mess with us ALL!
@NycRetirees
in solidarity!
Hey
@HenryGarrido17
@dc37
when are you going to stop the
#biglie
you sold us down the river! You privatized a federal public health benefit forcing us into a non union inferior health plan! DisAdvantage is NOT
#medicare
! Prior auth kills people. Our Drs don’t take it.
#greed
Marianne Pizzitola (
@FDNYchic
), President of
@NYCretirees
, and tens of thousands of New York City retirees are saying NO to the privatization of Medicare.
But this fight doesn’t just belong to them, it belongs to all of us.
On
#medicare
you know what you have, almost all doctors except it. No prior authorizations.
@Aetna
#medicareDisAdvantage
isn’t widely excepted & has prior authorizations that wrongly delay & deny care. People have died as a result. If it was so good, they wouldn’t force you on it
@NYCMayor
.
@NycRetirees
had an American dream. We worked for the
@NYCMayor
for a pension and health benefits and you keep trying to take that away. We earned our Federal Medicare and you forcing us into an inferior plan will harm or kill some of us and that is criminal after WE SERVED.
When a former councilwoman helps your fight, you know you’re on the right side of history. CM Margarita Lopez remembers Mary Pinkett fighting to protect Medicare & retirees and she’s joined by our retirees!❤️
.
@NycRetirees
feels the loss of Retiree “Melissa L.” Who passed away after a repeated struggle with cancer. The last years of her life were spent fighting to protect her life and her
#Medicare
because
@NYCCouncil
didn’t. May your memory be a blessing- it is to us who knew you ❤️
Thank you 🙏
@NYDailyNews
@C_Sommerfeldt
for following our fight. To Gary Altman for sharing his real life experience that many of us just read about. To Mary Pinkett for being that union leader/council champion and for
@CMbarron2
for having our back ❤️let’s pass
#intro1099
.
@AARP
@AARPNY
@DBunis
love the article in the Oct bulletin. I will make ONE correction,
#medicare
advantage is not increasingly being chosen by new enrollees, they are being auto enrolled into them by employers evading responsibility & greedy insurance companies like
@Aetna
@mcuban
@NycRetirees
has been fighting
@NYCMayor
@Aetna
for two years trying to force us into MA. No one listens that you’re forced into their drug plan whether the copay will bankrupt you or their formulary covers your drug- you can use an outside PDP.
Aetna in court (we fund
I’m going to bed early to get up to speak with Manny and Scott and Bob at 0700! Happy new year fellow labor warriors protecting healthcare from pariahs! Here is to victory in 2024!!
Herbert Haber, OLR chief negotiator told
@nytimes
Victor Gotbaum DC 37 “Vic will cut your heart out if he feels you are hurting his members.”
@bgotbaum
can affirm Vic’s
@DC37nyc
would never diminish earned and paid for benefits. We are retired union labor!
#protectRetirees
Want to join the movement to
#ReclaimMedicare
?
Join the
@BeAHero
team on July 25th in D.C. to tell
@POTUS
we’re sick and tired of greedy healthcare corporations denying and delaying our care.
The
@NYCMayor
must think we’re stupid to fall for “perks” like a gym pass or prepackaged unhealthy dry or frozen meals instead of direct access to healthcare. These are the only
#silversneakers
we need!
#sparkle
baby!
When
@UFT
leadership sells off health benefits for raises and gets exposed by the retirees, in service workers should pay attention because you’re next. We said it for a year. Your plan change is imminent. Added copays and limited networks for savings are givebacks
The
@UFTUnity
caucus has never lost a seat other than HS Exec. Board. Now they've lost two of 5 paraprofessional seats. Next, they will lose the retirees, after having stolen their Medicare.
The NYC City Council needs true champions for Municipal Retirees, and Susan Zhuang is one of them!
We were happy to come out and help
@susanzhuangnyc
be the next City Councilmember for District 43!
#nycretirees
won!
#again
#protect12dash126
now!! Two courts have spoken! Every city council has protected retirees from mayors wanting to strip retirees of hard earned benefits. Will this one? A
#BlueRibbonCommission
is needed if you need help We earned and paid for this already
I am not asking, I DEMAND a hearing on
@Sedgwick
failure to provide healthcare to our 9/11 responders. THEY HAVE NO NATIONAL NETWORK OF PROVIDERS!!! On top of
@NYCMayor
trying to force us into managed privatized Medicare Disadvantage. We are literally fighting for our lives.
Meet Lillian, she is a
@NycRetirees
from
@DC37nyc
like me, and she will be 102! And tells
@NYCMayor
to leave her Traditional Medicare & supplement alone!
Here is another reason putting seniors into an inferior
#MedicareDisAdvantage
plan like
@aetna
will harm retirees. Navigating admin tasks for prior authorization or network issues and billing are a burden that can’t be met.
It’s Christmas Eve & I can’t sleep because a company like
@aetna
is so evil it once again is trying to force people into its inferior insurance for profit. Forcing people onto a plan that we would NEVER choose SAYS A LOT. 97% of drs in America don’t accept you & neither do we
.
@NYCMayor
wants to put 1.2M employees/retirees in the hands of
@aetna
? They want our Medicare $ to save them. They abuse workers - this screams for union organizing!
@AFLCIO
@CentralLaborNYC
If Michael Mulgrew won’t properly represent the
@UFT
OT/PT they should seek a union leader who will. They deserve a fair contract not a leader who breaks their unit and forces a revote because he didn’t get his way. This is not democratic.
#OTPTproud
@WorkBitesNews
@CentralLaborNYC
@NYSAFLCIO
@CrossRetirees
When labor leaders become corporatists and endorse privatization of healthcare it’s time for them to go. All workers should take note we are fighting for our lives while our former unions are stealing our access to Medicare for value in THEIR BARGAINING! We are
#laborstrong
This thanksgiving give thanks to those protecting Medicare like
@BeaHero
@SSWorks
@NycRetirees
. Boycott
@cvspharmacy
@Aetna
because they are greedy and forcing people into their plans. Stay on Traditional Medicare, or you might not be able to get it back with a supplement later!
So it appears the crossing guards, our lowest paid workers in
@DC37nyc
were told that they are going to be laid off because the
@NYCMayor
is cutting the budget. And this mind you is after they were given a contract. Way to go Henry Garrido!
@JustinBrannan
any room in the budget
We are union even though we are retired. Labor supported Medicare & got it passed for ALL to have EQUAL access to healthcare. This is a GREAT piece of journalism.
#union
#retirees
#medicare
@WorkBitesNews
I wonder if
@Aetna
knows they signed a contract with
@NYCMayor
with an ‘arbitrator’ that charges $7500 a day supporting a deal negotiated by Bob Linn at $500/hr as a former city commish &
@cbcny
This is nyc tax dollars.
@NYCSpeakerAdams
I believe we can all affirmatively state the Commissioner of OLR LIED to COMRO &
@NycRetirees
when she said there would be no bureaucratic hurdles to access care or providers & their plan was better or equal to what we have. This was a PURE FABRICATION.
Well
@rweingarten
you are just as guilty for helping
@UFT
negotiate its CBA on the backs of other unions, forcing everyone into
#medicareadvantage
- an inferior plan diminishing benefits for workers & retirees & privatizing Medicare. You also helped misuse the HISF. Hello pot?🤦🏽♀️
On top of sky high insurance costs, the cost of living in Florida is rising twice as fast as other parts of the country. But instead of helping working Floridians, DeSantis is pushing culture wars and campaigning for President.
#DeSantisSoldOut
Thank you
@BrianLehrer
@WNYC
the
@NycRetirees
for the opportunity to express ourselves to you and your audience. There’s more. Lots more. No one dissected all the ways this plan will leave retirees without coverage. The
@NYCMayor
doesn’t want to know! Let’s do this again!
Because real labor has morals & ethics and honor those who built their unions and this city! Retirees organized, grass roots fundraiser and built a village to fight City hall! More people come to our rallies than theirs!
#laborstrong
When
@dc37
attacks me as anti union, they are exposing themselves. Loyalty rather than competency is more valuable to them.
@NycRetirees
have won in court repeatedly showing Henry Garrido violated the law to steal from retirees to enrich themselves. That’s not just criminal 🧵1/2
Fact matter to us. They should to you too.
@ebottcher
@NycRetirees
96% of doctors in America except traditional Medicare. The few that don’t are typically pediatricians or psychiatrists. Many retirees currently in Aetna, have lost their drs. 1/4
Hey
@rweingarten
, when the
@uft
attacks
@NycRetirees
striping them of their access to federal
#Medicare
they are not only attacking teachers, they are attacking America, and a public health benefit. Teachers unions exist to protect teachers, not sell them out
@ChrisChristie
Let’s be clear: When Tim Scott and Chris Christie attack teachers unions, they’re attacking teachers. Teachers unions exist to give teachers a voice so that they can do their best for kids.
#GOPdebate
@NYCMayor
You say you’re one of us but you’re not. Your advocating forcing us into an inferior health plan & refuse to hear WHY that’s true &!keep spreading the big lie it’s good. If you’re ok with diminishing a benefit we earned when employed, how can anyone trust you. You became a shirt.
Yes- And further proof insurance companies have no conscience, they are going around the USA convincing employers and unions their plans are better than traditional Medicare to allow their retirees to be autoenrolled into their plans violating the promises made to them.
"Healthcare executives' pay topped $335 million last year while 100 million Americans were saddled with medical debt."
No, this is not an onion headline.
Thank you,
@wendellpotter
, for shining a light on the rampant greed in the healthcare industry.