You would think that the MLC UNION LESDERS would pay attention
Frank
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Angry retirees pack Council meet on Adams' health plan
BY CHRIS SOMMERFELDT
NEWS CITY HALL AND POLITICS REPORTER
Members of Mayor Adams' administration faced jeers and hours of critical
questioning during a Monday City Council hearing on his controversial attempt
to make retired municipal workers pay for some forms of health insurance.
The complicated matter before the Council centers on an insurance plan called
Medicare Advantage that Adams wants to enroll the municipal government's
roughly 250,000 retired workers in because it could save the city hundreds of
millions of dollars a year, he says.
Courts have for over a year blocked the administration from implementing the
plan due to a provision in it that would slap $191 monthly premiums on
retirees who want to stay on traditional Medicare instead of accepting
Advantage coverage. As a result, Adams has turned to the Council, asking its
members to pass a bill that would roll back the underlying law that prompted
courts to block the plan's financial penalty in the first place.
