On Wednesday, June 18, New York States’ highest court handed the Adams administration a victory in the ongoing battle to shift hundreds of thousands of retirees from traditional Medicare to Medicare Advantage health insurance. Medicare Advantage is a private insurance company that has been found to be detrimental in their policies by limiting or changing current doctors to those on their plans, denying claims, and having higher out-of-pocket costs, a change that would be highly detrimental to retirees, as well as other disadvantages as compared with Medicare. Along with Adams, the city’s largest municipal unions’ executive director, Henry Garrido, had supported the switch. Now, only five days later, an unexpected statement from Adams says that the city has found “other ways” and that he would not proceed “at this time”. Retirees cheered the change, at the same time wanting it to be enshrined in law.
Read the full story by Richard Khavkine for The Chief, published June 20, 2025, here: https://thechiefleader.com/stories/adams-retreats-from-medicare-advantage-effort,54624?
