Despite the city’s recently signed agreement with managed-care company Aetna, retired municipal workers are vowing a fight to keep their current and preferred coverage.
Hundreds of retirees gathered on the Broadway sidewalk outside City Hall Plaza last Friday to denounce the city’s move to shift about 250,000 of them from their government-administered Medicare plan to a private Medicare Advantage plan and scoffed at officials’ assurances that the quality of care offered by managed-care giant Aetna would surpass that of their current arrangement.
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