Mia, Harry understands everything related to traditional Medicare vs Medicare Disadvantage plans. Something else is going on here. I personally believe that the MA lobby is powerful and overflowing with cash. He’s obviously using false claims of an inability to collectively bargain due to retiree claims, as a veil for far more duplicitous motives. His actions are more in line with a personal stratagem as opposed to a sound union strategy. That’s just my opinion. It’s the same with Adams. When he was a candidate, he stated that he wouldn’t put his grandmother in a Medicare Advantage plan. Once in office, Grannie is fine in a Disadvantage plan, along with the rest of city retirees. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
If Napoli is right that Bill 1096 is unlawful than 12.126 of the administrative code is unlawful. He must know better than New York’s highest court: the Court of Appeals which has decided for the New York Retirees.
Since we know that Naspoli can not write a complete sentence, this letter was written by Naspoli’s and Mulgrew’s very smart lawyers retained by the MLC and UFT to oppose the rights of their retirees.
Have they no shame. Have they no sense of decency.
If you say one thing then covertly do another doesn't that make the first thing a lie? I heard someone is quoting Debs to support Mulgrew. I can see that there actually is a relation: the great Debs went to jail for trying to protect working people (from becoming cannon fodder in WWI) and it seems Mulgrew should be penalized for his efforts to make working people fodder for health insurance companies.
That's some seriously twisted logic! And who chose the word "gainsaid"? Why not just say deny or dispute? Are they trying to convince us they're intelligent with their SAT words LOL!
There is a lot of misinformation around retirees and the New York Health Act. But, NYHA is the protection from Medicare Advantage retirees need. If retirees want a solution, they need to back NYHA. There is no Medicare Advantage under NYHA.
Full-time NYS employee living in Connecticut (other nearby state that they commute from) = Coverage locally paid for by the NYHA trust
Out-of-state accident while on vacation = Covered by NYHA trust
Out-of-state retirees = Continue with their federal Medicare with supplements paid for by NY. NO ADVANTAGE PLAN. However, time is of the essence. The bill states that out-of-state retirees maintain their current retiree benefit as if the bill was never enacted. We need to lock in these benefits now. If we do not pass NYHA and for whatever reason retirees are pushed onto MA, that will take amending of the bill and make it more difficult to preserve traditional medicare for out-of-state retirees. In-state are covered by NYHA so they don't ever have to worry. The timeline worries me. We pass NYHA and lock in traditional medicare as a benefit mandated by NYS law or risk changes to their healthcare that everyone fought so hard to preserve and they deserve!
So, I am worried about the timeline. Pass NYHA NOW and save retirees from Medicare Advantage or risk unwanted changes to their benefits.
Did anyone tell Harry that Medicare is accepted across the entire United States. It’s a Federal program
I can think of many things I'd like to tell Harry. Valid though that is, it's not top of my list.
Mia, Harry understands everything related to traditional Medicare vs Medicare Disadvantage plans. Something else is going on here. I personally believe that the MA lobby is powerful and overflowing with cash. He’s obviously using false claims of an inability to collectively bargain due to retiree claims, as a veil for far more duplicitous motives. His actions are more in line with a personal stratagem as opposed to a sound union strategy. That’s just my opinion. It’s the same with Adams. When he was a candidate, he stated that he wouldn’t put his grandmother in a Medicare Advantage plan. Once in office, Grannie is fine in a Disadvantage plan, along with the rest of city retirees. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
If Napoli is right that Bill 1096 is unlawful than 12.126 of the administrative code is unlawful. He must know better than New York’s highest court: the Court of Appeals which has decided for the New York Retirees.
Since we know that Naspoli can not write a complete sentence, this letter was written by Naspoli’s and Mulgrew’s very smart lawyers retained by the MLC and UFT to oppose the rights of their retirees.
Have they no shame. Have they no sense of decency.
I like that you ended those last two questions with periods, because they really are not questions.
May is just around the corner.
If you say one thing then covertly do another doesn't that make the first thing a lie? I heard someone is quoting Debs to support Mulgrew. I can see that there actually is a relation: the great Debs went to jail for trying to protect working people (from becoming cannon fodder in WWI) and it seems Mulgrew should be penalized for his efforts to make working people fodder for health insurance companies.
He thinks we're stupid. That's the only explanation I can make sense of.
That's some seriously twisted logic! And who chose the word "gainsaid"? Why not just say deny or dispute? Are they trying to convince us they're intelligent with their SAT words LOL!
I love that you noticed that (and kind of wish I had).
Comments Re Mulgrew: Watch what he does, not what he says. (Point well-taken here.)
Thoughts Re UFT opposition: Watch what they do, not what they say. (Running two slates is doomed to failure.)
There is a lot of misinformation around retirees and the New York Health Act. But, NYHA is the protection from Medicare Advantage retirees need. If retirees want a solution, they need to back NYHA. There is no Medicare Advantage under NYHA.
Is the NYHA accepted by doctors in all 50 states and US territories?
Here are the different out-of-state scenarios
Full-time NYS employee living in Connecticut (other nearby state that they commute from) = Coverage locally paid for by the NYHA trust
Out-of-state accident while on vacation = Covered by NYHA trust
Out-of-state retirees = Continue with their federal Medicare with supplements paid for by NY. NO ADVANTAGE PLAN. However, time is of the essence. The bill states that out-of-state retirees maintain their current retiree benefit as if the bill was never enacted. We need to lock in these benefits now. If we do not pass NYHA and for whatever reason retirees are pushed onto MA, that will take amending of the bill and make it more difficult to preserve traditional medicare for out-of-state retirees. In-state are covered by NYHA so they don't ever have to worry. The timeline worries me. We pass NYHA and lock in traditional medicare as a benefit mandated by NYS law or risk changes to their healthcare that everyone fought so hard to preserve and they deserve!
So, I am worried about the timeline. Pass NYHA NOW and save retirees from Medicare Advantage or risk unwanted changes to their benefits.