"Through the generations, hundreds of thousands of public servants have spent the best years of their lives delivering for New York whether on the beat as a cop, on the job as a firefighter, picking up trash for the Sanitation Department, pruning trees for the Parks Department, assisting seniors at the Department for the Aging, and so on."
"The city's municipal workers have some of the best benefits any civil servant in the United States can enjoy. Yet in recent years, City Hall has pushed to privatize part of municipal retirees' health benefits, shifting them to Medicare Advantage plans in a cost-cutting move. The real costs, however, are being borne by municipal retirees who have to shell out more of their hard-earned savings and fixed incomes just to afford full health coverage in their golden years."
"Medicare is affordable, transparent, and run by the federal government at minimal overhead. Medicare Advantage is neither affordable nor transparent. Private for-profit companies exploit the rules and the system to gain as much as possible from their customers while minimizing expenses through claim denials. Federal investigators have found that the firms running Medicare Advantage have improperly denied necessary medical care to millions of Americans each year. In other cases, as the New York Times found, firms are upcoding cases to gain the most payments."
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is the visible face of city government while municipal workers across agencies perform the daily labor that keeps New York functioning. Hundreds of thousands of public servants have devoted prime years to roles such as police, firefighting, sanitation, parks, and senior services. Municipal workers historically received strong benefits, but City Hall has moved to shift retirees' health coverage toward Medicare Advantage as a cost-saving measure. That privatization forces many retirees to pay more from savings and fixed incomes. Medicare is described as affordable and transparent, while Medicare Advantage is described as opaque, profit-driven, and prone to denials and upcoding.
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