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To the editor:
Mayor Eric Adams and the Municipal Labor Committee's deal to privatize retirees’ Medicare is a corrupt deal as 1) Unions cannot by law represent retirees; 2) The history of NYC Unions has been to fight privatization, not embrace it; 3) The needs of retirees who live out of state have been ignored, especially those who would be forced to buy a Medicare supplement plan (46 states are allowed to deny coverage for preexisting conditions); 4) The contract rewards Aetna, a company that sold slave insurance policies; 5) The mayor and the UNIONS have made a heartless, diabolical and historical (used car salesman's) bait and switch to retirees’ health care; 6) The legacy of the 110th mayor of New York will surely be that he did not give a-dams about employee and retiree health care; 7) Would labor leaders of the past and former mayors praise this move? 8) Who is cheerleading this and who is getting paid? 9) Remember he was a Republican from 1997 to 2001.
We got conned.
Eddie Gates
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