Following the lead of several other mayoral candidates, Andrew Cuomo is pledging he would if elected kill the Adams administration’s stalled effort to move New York City’s 250,000 municipal retirees into a privatized Medicare plan that many fear would dilute their health insurance.
Since taking office in early 2022, Mayor Adams has pressed to make an Advantage plan managed by a private insurance company the only health care option for the city’s tens of thousands of retired municipal workers, including cops, firefighters and teachers. That marked a significant shift from the status quo, in which the city offers its retirees traditional Medicare with city-subsidized supplements.
Adams’ team — as well as leaders of some key municipal unions — have argued the Advantage plan would improve care and also save the city hundreds of millions of dollars every year in health insurance spending…