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Re: NYC Public Service Retirees and the fight against changing
their health insurance
DIR By: animaniactoo
Date: March 4, 2022, 9:03 pm
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> Thanks. I posted my thanks in the main thread because I was on
my phone and couldn't find this. 😁
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Lol. No worries, I posted my reply there. ;)
#Post#: 79806--------------------------------------------------
Re: NYC Public Service Retirees and the fight against changing
their health insurance
DIR By: animaniactoo
Date: March 7, 2022, 2:28 pm
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Anddddd... as of today, the contact number for questions and to
opt out is telling people that they don't need to opt out and
won't take people's opt out notifications.
It is true that the city has paused implementation of the new
MAP program, and they will probably come back with something
that is somewhat retooled... but I suspect the refusal to
continue to take opt-outs when they have said "you don't need
to" is more about stemming the bleeding after flood of opt-outs
in the past month.
There were two trigger points for the opt-outs
• First, Retirees found out through court questioning that while
an accidental enrollment in the MAP of someone who attempted to
opt-out close to the cut-off date wouldn't be held against them
in their "one-time switch", it could take months to fix the
error. And thus they said "if you're leaning towards opting out,
don't wait, do it now. Now is your best protection against
accidentally ending up with the MAP for months.
• Then the judge ruled that the city couldn't charge retirees
for staying in their current supplemental plans and a lot of
people who didn't think they could AFFORD to stay in their
current plans ran to opt out.
I see this refusal to continue to take opt-outs as an attempt to
stem the bleeding, and create a future picture of "Only X
percentage of people opted out of the previous version of the
plan". A less cynical person might think it was because the plan
will be significantly revamped and they don't want people to opt
out of something they may end up wanting, but I am not that
person at all, based on the moves so far.
#Post#: 143287--------------------------------------------------
Re: NYC Public Service Retirees and the fight against changing
their health insurance
DIR By: animaniactoo
Date: November 16, 2022, 9:16 pm
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It's been awhile since I posted about this.
So... having lost the primary biggest parts of the fight in
court, the City has switched tactics... they are now trying to
change the law that guarantees retiree health coverage and how
it is enacted, both in coverage, and how it is decided. Some
info on why they're pursuing this so hard here:
HTML https://www.statnews.com/2022/11/15/replace-medicare-advantage-failure-with-medicare-part-f/
And some of the public service union leadership is in on it,
continuing to misrepresent what is going on to both retirees and
active members. Retirees have been on a campaign for a few
months now to inform active members what is happening - because
this is their future if 12-126 (the change law) gets passed.
HTML https://jd2718.org/2022/11/08/threatening-the-health-care-of-in-service-and-retired-nyc-workers/
Fight far from over...
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