On Sept. 30, hundreds of determined city retirees rallied at City Hall Park, continuing their fight to keep their current health care, promises made by the city decades ago. At odds with the Adams administration, they demanded that Mayor Adams drop his endless legal efforts to switch the former workers from their original government-administered Medicare and supplemental insurance, to for-profit Medicare Advantage plans, which are inferior to the former in multiple ways, the most important being that the Medicare Advantage plans typically require pre-approvals, some of which, say the retirees, are determined by artificial intelligence, putting their health in double jeopardy. Dr. Donald Moore, who runs a full-time general medicine practice in Brooklyn and is a board member of the New York Metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, said, highlighting rising financial inequities in America, “Rich people have Medicare, while those with fewer means or even none must contend with Medicare Advantage.” Read the full story by Richard Khavkine for The Chief-Leader, published here: https://thechiefleader.com/stories/city-retirees-demand-adams-drop-medicare-appeals,53172
