NY's teacher union leadership's healthcare sellout.
The gun is pointed right at the heads of the rank and file membership, active and retired.
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The fight against the privatization of Medicare is raging among public employees in New York right now.
If you remember, it was AFT President Randi Weingarten who hinted the union’s position back during the Democratic Party primary when she opposed Sanders’ healthcare proposals.
In New York the union president Michael Mulgrew is trying to bully his membership into a private Medicare Advantage program against their will.
Teacher retirees and other public employees are resisting, as they should
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Joe Biden is continuing a Trump-era plan to move every Medicare recipient into a private plan by the end of the decade.
Thursday an arbitrator issued an opinion that supported the attempt by New York City and supported by the UFT leadership to switch over 250,000 retired city workers and their dependents to an Aetna Medicare Advantage privatized health insurance plan.
Arbitrator Martin Scheinman wrote that the new plan must be negotiated by January 9th.
After the shift, New York City retirees would then receive coverage from health insurance giant Aetna through Medicare Advantage.
These for-profit plans have been plagued by denying coverage, misusing pre-authorization powers and over-billing scandals.
If the plan to move teachers and other public employees to private health care succeeds the city of New York claims it will “save” millions of dollars.
But when the boss says they want to “save” money it usually means it will cost us plenty.
This is the kind of issue we should be working to unite around. The culture war issues do not benefit us.