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Short of Council support, retirees vow to prevail on Medicare issue

BY RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 1/17/25

City Council legislation that would preserve municipal retirees’ health benefits has so far found little traction, but the retirees and their advocates have vowed to persist in their effort to defeat the Adams administration’s plan to switch the former city workers into an inferior Medicare Advantage plan.

Ten of them met last Friday with Chelsea Council Member Erik Bottcher, who they said declined to support a bill that would prohibit wholesale changes to the retired workers’ health plans. 

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