Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

New York City Retirees Say No to Privatized Medicare
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
13 Jan 2023
🖨️ Print Article

Black Agenda Radio · New York City Retirees Say No to Privatized Medicare

Michelle Keller is a retiree of District Council 37 and President of the New York City Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women AFLCIO. She joins us from New York City to discuss the outcome of a labor agreement which attempts to force New York City retirees to accept a privatized Medicare advantage program to access free care. Should this plan go forward, they would have to pay nearly $200 a month in order to secure traditional Medicare. The matter is now before the City Council which will vote on a proposal to change the City’s administrative code and allow this plan to go forward.

New York City
labor
Austerity
Privatized Medicare

More Stories


  • Black Agenda Radio, Week of June 12, 2019
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Agenda Radio, week of June 12, 2019
    11 Jun 2019
  • DA and Cops Led the  Central Park 5 Lynch Mob
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    DA and Cops Led the Central Park 5 Lynch Mob
    11 Jun 2019
    The horrific ordeal that was inflicted on five Harlem teenagers by a criminal justice and corporate media lynch mob in 1989, has come back to haunt the former lead prosecutor, Linda Fairstein,
  • The Two Faces of the Black Church
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    The Two Faces of the Black Church
    10 Jun 2019
    The Black Church spawned militant resistance to white supremacy as well as a politics of accommodation to white rule.
  • Gandhi’s Struggle Relevant to 21st Century Anti-Imperialism
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Gandhi’s Struggle Relevant to 21st Century Anti-Imperialism
    10 Jun 2019
    Following up a yearlong, citywide study of the works of WEB Dubois, the Philadelphia Saturday Free School kicks off “The Year of Gandhi,” June 14 and 15, at the Church of the Advocate.
  • Reparations Now Ripe for Full Congressional Debate
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Reparations Now Ripe for Full Congressional Debate
    10 Jun 2019
    The premier organization pushing for Black reparations holds its 30th annual convention, June 20 – 23, in Detroit. HR 40, the House Reparations Study bill, now has a companion measure in the U.S.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us