One of those consequences is apparently getting your healthcare and retirement benefits stripped away without a membership vote. - Nick Bacon, repost from http://newaction.org
These unions especially UFT and DC37 and my own COBA are complete sellouts who didn't just forfeit our Healthcare through Senior Care, but our actual health. These presidents do very well financially themselves, and when they retire have no problem paying large medigap plans, but most of us, especially those who live out of NEW YORK are completely screwed out of Traditional Medicare. If we stick with this new Aetna dis Advantage PPO, most of our present physicians don't accept any Advantage plans. So we have zero choice but to opt out and pay higher fees with supplement plans and we forgot it Medicare reimbursement.
The City says it needs 600M to continue SeniorCare, haven’t seen anyone dispute- if the purposed Aetna plan is defeated what are the options, “tax the rich” is popular, not exactly a realistic option, I would like to see a menu of options and/or viable alternatives
These unions especially UFT and DC37 and my own COBA are complete sellouts who didn't just forfeit our Healthcare through Senior Care, but our actual health. These presidents do very well financially themselves, and when they retire have no problem paying large medigap plans, but most of us, especially those who live out of NEW YORK are completely screwed out of Traditional Medicare. If we stick with this new Aetna dis Advantage PPO, most of our present physicians don't accept any Advantage plans. So we have zero choice but to opt out and pay higher fees with supplement plans and we forgot it Medicare reimbursement.
The City says it needs 600M to continue SeniorCare, haven’t seen anyone dispute- if the purposed Aetna plan is defeated what are the options, “tax the rich” is popular, not exactly a realistic option, I would like to see a menu of options and/or viable alternatives
Another egregious fact is the Mr. Mulgrew is BOTH the UFT presidents AND an executive vice-chair of the MLC. Blatant conflict of interest!!