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From: Barry A. Kaufmann, NYSARA President <president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2021 7:00 AM
To: ericprussell@xxxxxxxxxxx <ericprussell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: February 22, 2021 NYSARA Monday Alert Retiree News
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NYSARA Issues Support Memo Protecting Retiree Health Insurance Premiums
NYSARA is concerned about the proposals in Governor Cuomo’s Executive Budget
which once again target fixed-income retirees. The governor’s plan to cap and
eliminate certain Medicare Part B reimbursements and increase health insurance
costs is unfair and bad policy. These proposals, which seem to appear in one
form or another every year since 2016, must be rejected.
The governor’s proposal would cap reimbursement of the Medicare Part B standard
premium at the current levels and cease reimbursement for the Income Related
Monthly Adjustment Amounts (IRMAA) for higher-income state retirees.
Specifically, the proposal would cap the standard premium reimbursement at
$148.50 per month for retirees and their eligible dependents. Any future
increases would be subject to budget negotiations. In addition, the state
would retroactively discontinue the IRMAA Medicare Part B reimbursement back to
January 1, 2021. The new IRMAA burden alone will cost affected retirees
anywhere from $713 to $4,277 annually.
The governor has also proposed a sliding scale for retiree health insurance
costs for new employees, creating yet another barrier for recruitment and
retention of state workers at a time where that recruitment is critical. Any
future employees who work less than 30 years for the state would pay a
proportionally higher percentage of health care costs in retirement.
Capping and eliminating these insurance reimbursements and increasing retiree
health care costs will greatly impact retirees who dedicated their lives to
public service and are now on fixed incomes. Public employee retirees do not
have the financial flexibility to go out and earn extra money in response to
budgetary whims. It is patently unfair to pick on these individuals and ask
them to fill budget shortfalls long after they have left the workforce
especially because this represents a bait and switch policy. When retirees
make a decision to retire they take all their retirement costs into
consideration. To ask them to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars a
month more that they had not anticipated at retirement is both unfair and
unnecessary. Balancing the state budget should not be a burden they have to
bear. NYSARA members must ask their legislators to remove Parts CC, DD and EE
of the Public Protection and General Government Article VII Budget Bill
(A.3005/S.2505) to reject these bad proposals that would increase health care
costs for state retirees.
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Growing Acrimony Over NY Nursing Facility Deaths
The controversy over New York’s accounting for Covid19 deaths in New York’s
nursing facilities is growing more contentious. Here is the latest on the
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A telehealth service is a full visit with a provider using telephone or video
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Medicare covers certain telehealth benefits, such as professional
consultations, office visits, including psychiatry services, and a limited
number of other services.
Original Medicare only covers telehealth in limited situations:
* You live in a rural area and travel from your home to a local medical
facility to get telehealth services.
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about its costs and coverage rules for additional telehealth benefits.
In response to the coronavirus public health
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Medicare has expanded coverage for and access to telehealth benefits.
State Legislators Push For Price-Hike Penalties to Lower Drug Prices
In the absence of federal action to lower drug prices, growing numbers of state
legislators around the country are pushing legislation to penalize drugmakers
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Legislators in Hawaii, Maine and Washington recently introduced bills that
would impose an 80% tax on drug price increases that are not supported by
evidence of improved clinical value. Oklahoma and Rhode Island lawmakers have
filed bills that would set the rates paid for up to 250 of the costliest drugs
to rates paid by the four most populous Canadian provinces, which they say
could reduce prices by an average of 75%.
Experts and the American public agree that the problem is growing. According to
a recent survey released by Politico and Harvard, 87% of Americans favor
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particularly Medicare beneficiaries with high out-of-pocket costs. In January
the Rand Corp. released a new study that found list prices in the United States
for prescription drugs in 2018 were 2.56 times
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than the prices in 32 other developed countries, while brand-name drug prices
averaged 3.44 times higher.
“We need Congress to pass legislation that allows Medicare to negotiate lower
prices,” said Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance. “The action
at the state level is necessary because the Senate did not act on H.R. 3,
legislation passed by the House last year. We must finally hold drug
corporations accountable for making medicines affordable for everyone who needs
them.”
House Committee Will Focus on USPS Next Week
After months of continued Postal Service delays, the House Committee on
Oversight and Reform will hold a hearing on the Postal Service on February 24.
Among the witnesses are Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, American Postal Workers
Union President Mark Dimondstein and Postal Service Inspector General Tammy L.
Whitcomb.
Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney says, “The hearing will examine
legislative proposals to place the Postal Service on a more sustainable
financial footing going forward while preserving the delivery performance
standards on which the American people rely.”
Older Americans rely on the Postal Service to deliver prescription drugs and
other essential goods, and increasing numbers of Americans are reporting delays
in delivery of their bills, resulting in substantial late fees and penalties.
The delays are a result of so-called “reforms” implemented by Mr. DeJoy,
including elimination of overtime and suspension of requirements for timely
delivery. Postal service employees have also been hit hard by the pandemic,
with thousands of workers unable to work due to illness or quarantine
requirements.
“Everyone relies on the post office,” said Joseph Peters, Jr.,
Secretary-Treasurer of the Alliance. “Americans have relied on it for 200 years
and Congress needs to ensure that it can meet its critical mission.” ACTION
NEEDED: The Alliance has teamed up with other organizations that support the
Postal Service to gather hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition that
will be delivered to Congress before next week’s hearing. Please click here and
add your
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KHN: Family Caregivers, Routinely Left Off Vaccine Lists, Worry What Would
Happen ‘If I Get Sick’
By Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News
Robin Davidson entered the lobby of Houston Methodist Hospital, where her
89-year-old father, Joe, was being treated for a flare-up of congestive heart
failure.
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Robin Davidson is a full-time caregiver for her father, Joe, who has congestive
heart failure. Worry over whether she’d bring covid-19 to her father has been
on Davidson’s mind daily. But recently he was vaccinated ― “an indescribable
relief,” she says. (Kevin Parker)
Before her stretched a line of people waiting to get covid-19 vaccines. “It was
agonizing to know that I couldn’t get in that line,” said Davidson, 50, who is
devoted to her father and usually cares for him full time. “If I get sick, what
would happen to him?”
Tens of thousands of middle-aged sons and daughters caring for older relatives
with serious ailments but too young to qualify for a vaccine
themselves are similarly terrified of becoming ill and wondering when they can
get protected against the coronavirus.
Like aides and other workers in nursing homes, these family caregivers
routinely administer medications, monitor blood pressure, cook, clean and help
relatives wash, get dressed and use the toilet, among many other
responsibilities. But they do so in apartments and houses, not in long-term
care institutions — and they’re not paid.
“In all but name, they’re essential health care workers, taking care of
patients who are very sick, many of whom are completely reliant upon them, some
of whom are dying,” said Katherine Ornstein, a caregiving expert and associate
professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at the Mount Sinai medical
school in New York City. “Yet, we don’t recognize or support them as such, and
that’s a tragedy.”
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Former President Trump and Hate Groups Sued Over January 6 Capitol Riot
The NAACP and Rep. Bennie Thompson (Miss.)
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former President Trump on Tuesday, claiming that Trump incited the Capitol
riot on January 6 in violation of a Reconstruction Era law called the Ku Klux
Klan Act.
The lawsuit also names former New York City mayor and close Trump ally Rudy
Giuliani as well as two white supremacist groups, the Proud Boys and the Oath
Keepers.
“The January 6 riots were an attack on our democracy and those responsible must
be held accountable,” said Robert Roach, Jr., President of the Alliance. “We
will be monitoring the progress of this lawsuit in the coming months.”
The Alliance is keeping all Texans, particularly
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in our thoughts during this past week’s freezing temperatures and related
power outages. CBS News has compiled a list of organizations providing relief
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