To the Editor: I have learned that the City of New York and the Municipal Labor Committee are in the process of awarding a highly lucrative contract to a major health-insurance company to take over administering health insurance for over 200,000 Medicare-eligible retirees effective this fall. The Municipal Labor Committee's technical committee is evaluating the two finalists and will shortly send its recommendations to the MLC Steering Committee for a final vote.
Nowhere in this process has the city or MLC consulted with the retirees and their families to determine how it will help or harm us. Medicare Part B works very well for most of us. We contributed to Medicare during our years of employment with the tacit understanding that we would have the hard-earned entitlement when we turned 65.
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