Marianne Pizzitola @FDNYchic Twitter profile

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

3 months

#reclaimMedicare Make a Difference! @NycRetirees are counting on you!

Be a Hero

@BeaHero

3 months

Marianne Pizzitola ( @FDNYchic ), President of @NYCretirees , and tens of thousands of New York City retirees are saying NO to the privatization of Medicare. But this fight doesn’t just belong to them, it belongs to all of us.

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

Henry Garrido @DC37nyc this is conduct unbecoming union labor. Stop stealing our healthcare and telling everyone you’re doing us a favor! You should have been fighting for us militantly instead of getting into bed with management. Labor fights to protect itself. @NycRetirees

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

Meet Ira. He worked for NYC for 34 years & he earned his Senior Care. @NYCCouncil @NYCMayor can you tell Ira you don’t care that his Drs won’t accept @Aetna or he should suffer from denials of care because Aenta needs a profit? Traditional Medicare we paid for should stay!

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

1 year

Dear @NYCMayor we want you to hear us. #medicareAdvantage is NOT #Medicare and our care should not be in the hands of some panel the MLC thinks can determine our care. That job belongs to our doctors. “Savings” doesn’t belong in health care, this is our lives @CnDelarosa

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

11 months

Thank you @NYCComptroller for not registering #Aetna #medicareadvantage contract. We must preserve the public health benefit if Medicare. Now it’s time for @NYCMayor to do the right thing & preserve @NycRetirees health benefits &set the example nationwide how to treat retirees

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

6 years

@cameron_kasky Poor #NRABarbie is being attacked! Wait, let's all send her #ThoughtsAndPrayers

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

1 year

@C_Sommerfeldt @NYCMayor Everyone gets a leg up other than retirees who served this city for decades & took lower wages to do it. I guess if I was a club owner or politician I might get a meeting with the Mayor to protect the very people he is supposed to. Now that he’s not a candidate he walks it back😡

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

Thank you @AARPNY

AARP NY Applauds Court Ruling Blocking Cuts to NYC Retirees’ Health Benefits Days Before Crucial...

City Judge Temporarily Blocks Mayor’s Plan to Diminish Health Care for 250,000 City Retirees by Pushing Them into Privatized Version of Medicare

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

11 months

Retirees earn another win in court and more active workers join us! Two positives! @NYCCouncil @NYCSpeakerAdams @NYCMayor

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

@nypost Respect? He striped retirees of Medicare in a bait n switch, refuses to meet with us since he took office, & lies about how great Aetna is that he’s forcing seniors in. Respect? Communication? He fails to take his own advice, stole our healthcare & won’t talk to us @NycRetirees

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

Appears the @NYDailyNews is hearing from retirees on their slanted reporting thank you Mr Leventhal for speaking out.

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

@NYCMayor @WBLS1075NYC Bait N Switch Mayor steals Medicare, a public health benefit from senior citizens & disabled and lies about the crappy plan he traded it for. We earned our benefits. He lied and flip flopped. We sued and won 6 times. After each win he schemed another way to steal our benefits.

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

Let’s make this clear. OUR OWN UNION LEADERSHIPS SOLD OFF RETIREE HEALTH BENEFITS TO KEEP THEMSELVES PREMIUM FREE & DIDN’T TELL THEIR DUES PAYING MEMBERS. @UFT @DC37nyc @NYCCouncil @CnDelarosa @NYCSpeakerAdams @BrianLehrer @stucknation @WorkBitesNews

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

For @NYCMayor to slam Jeanie Dubnow for perceived disrespectful pointing when he disrespected HER…then ignoring @NycRetirees since he became mayor, flip flopped on us after election, robbing us of Medicare till a judge stopped him, we do the #JeaniePoint #RESPECT #seniors

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

11 months

Listen up! Our unions have a $600M hole in the Health insurance stabilization funds that pays active workers premium. The hole is due to the @UFT taking $1B from it for raises among other things NOT health related (the funds purpose). So they stole from @nycretirees 🧵1/2

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

Patrick @NYCPBA we have fought hard protecting NYPD Medicare Retirees! @nycretirees are thankful for this major victory and know there is more fight ahead. No greedy mayor should take away an earned and vested benefit from a retiree! ❤️

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

1 month

Good afternoon @UFT ! You blocked me on @Meta but…. I still 👀 youuuuuuuuuu😘 did you really think you stopped me from seeing you? 😂 since you now acknowledge there’s a budget surplus, you shouldn’t be privatizing Medicare for seniors & disabled retired unionists And DEFINITELY…

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

1 year

When they lie, it must be exposed. Stop stealing from @NycRetirees seniors and the disabled who served this city Aetna is NOT less expensive @NYCMayor @NYCMayorsOffice another #bigLie

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

Thank you @tiffany_caban @CabanD22 @NycRetirees appreciate you!

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 months

The dangers of what the mayor is doing to @NycRetirees here is one. In all but 4 states you can’t go from a DisAdvantage plan like @aetna and into a Supplement like senior care without underwriting good luck getting approved and costs will be high. We know we tried

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

11 months

We filed! A major appellate win last week (left hook) and filled a class against the city today (right hook) !!! @NycRetirees warriors protecting ourselves!!

NYC Retiree Rally - RETIREES HAVE A VOICE!

JOIN US AT 11 am TODAY and meet the TEAM!

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

Dear @EricDinowitzNYC , one of your constituents, and Retiree advises you are accusing me of lying. Please clarify what exactly I am lying about. I would like to know since you’re accusing me of something. We fact check. And cite and source our information. Let’s talk.

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

11 months

Protecting @NycRetirees is serious business. The second time the First department appellate court affirmed the Supreme Court decision. Yay us.

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

11 months

Join us and @Loc100fightback demanding our unions stop forcing us into #MedicareAdvantage plans! We want traditional #medicare ! Not managed privatized health care where our Drs don’t have the final say. Prior authorization. Networks. Silver sneakers is NOT an enhancement!

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 months

Dear unions, if an insurance company is telling you they will put your retirees in a plan that’s like #Medicare for free and has “added benefits” like #silverSneakers & rides, ask them if the #BrooklynBridge comes with it & walk away. You’re being lied to. #YW Xoxo, @NycRetirees

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

11 months

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." That goes for the women too. @NycRetirees @NYCCouncil @NYCSpeakerAdams @NYCMayor

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 months

Henry Garrido @DC37nyc , Retirees denounce your thuggery. You steal healthcare from senior citizens & disabled, lie & mislead your own membership, & then threaten the City Council. Your insecurity is showing. Grow up or step aside, We need Great Leaders!

Retirees Denounce DC37 Thuggery & Lies

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

5 months

When retired firefighters @UFANYC @UFOA854 invite me to breakfast at 0900 you go because I love these guys! Brooklyn Breakfast Club is in the house too! ❤️ #RMA breakfast We all agree Medicare DisAdvantage is NOT #Medicare 🙌 don’t diminish our healthcare-we’re retired union!

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 months

The #MLC is gaslighting everyone in a letter showing “supporters” who didn’t authorize the MLC to use their name. Those unions are private sector ¬ subject to Taylor law! MLC has no credibility @UFT @DC37nyc @CWALocal1180 @GregFloydSlate @TeamstersJC16 we 👀 you #BigLie

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

When the nations local AARP office has your back, that speaks volumes!! Thank you @AARPNY

aarpny

@AARPNY

10 months

Retired NYC public employees’ long-term health & retirement security at risk from @NYCMayor move to change health plan, says #AARPNY State Director @BethNY . City Hall must keep promises made to dedicated NYC public workers years ago. NO CUTS TO HEALTH CARE

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

4 months

The @NycRetirees are happy to announce #TWU100R retirees formerly of the @MTA and @TWULocal100 were granted a TRO today stopping them from being forced into @Aetna Medicare DisAdvantage! #WhenWeFightWeWin stop stealing our #Medicare @SSWorks @BeaHero @CMAorg Court date Jan24!

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

How can @UFT @UFTUnity still say #medicareadvantage is better than Traditional Medicare when the @medicarerights Board including @LBUFT Leroy Barr, UFT Secretary and Alan Lubin, fmr UFT DR & @nysut VP, @JanellaTHinds @medicarerights found otherwise?

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

Because @NYCMayor and @NYCSpeakerAdams should be thinking of their future and what it would be like not having access to a cancer specialist nationwide because they forced their retirees into Medicare Advantage.

Medicare Advantage is not an advantage for many seniors with cancer

Nearly half of all Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in MA plans.

thehill.com

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

You are either supporting your Retirees or you are not. Where do you stand @UFANYC @UFOA854 ? Not saying the name of our organization means you do not recognize what we are doing to protect Retirees access to Medicare and supplemental benefits we earned and paid for. #SayOurName

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

Thank you! #Intro1099 @tiffany_caban @CMbarron2 @Lynn4NYC @CMAriKagan47 @galeabrewer @InnaVernikov @CouncilwomanKrj @LindaLeeforNYC @CMShekarK @VickieforNYC @JoannAriola32 @BobHoldenNYC @ebottcher @JustinBrannan @nycdistrict1 @NYCCouncil38 @ShahanaFromBK

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

11 months

@NYCMayor And you’re robbing seniors or their health care ?? Why would balance the budget on the backs of the very people who gave this city so much? We want our Medicare!! @NycRetirees

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

4 months

The @NycRetirees pays tribute to @AdyBarkan @BeaHero & the entire team! Their video is priceless & shows what you can do when you come together. We can’t wait to make some more good trouble together to fulfill Ady’s mission! #LetsDoThis #reclaimMedicare @galeabrewer @bradlander

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

7 months

. @NYWFP @NycRetirees have been working on protecting the retired city workers from having their Medicare stripped from them. We have been asking for a hearing and been ignored. Healthcare is a human right. Join us

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

AARP New York Statement on Health Coverage for New York City Retirees @NYCCouncil @NYCMayor @NYCSpeakerAdams

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

5 months

@OsseChi Yes and @NycRetirees are going to fight for their lives until #medicare is protected and so are we. We earned our health benefits. We’ve won in court 7 times. Where have you been? Support #intro1099

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

Hey @HenryGarrido17 @dc37 when are you going to stop the #biglie you sold us down the river! You privatized a federal public health benefit forcing us into a non union inferior health plan! DisAdvantage is NOT #medicare ! Prior auth kills people. Our Drs don’t take it. #greed

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

Thank you @stucknation @WorkBitesNews for reporting on how retiree healthcare is being sold off to finance our former unions and how city council members are uniting to protect us.

Bob Hennelly

@stucknation

10 months

.⁦ @WorkBitesNews ⁩ Breaking News ⁦ @NYCCouncil ⁩ Member ⁦ @CharlesBarron12 ⁩ introduces a bill to preserve NYC retirees access to Medicare and urges his colleagues to “not be afraid” to reject ⁦ @Aetna ⁩ Medicare Advantage. ⁦ @FDNYchic ⁩ ⁦ @WBAI ⁩

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

4 months

Congratulations 🎊 to Nassau County #CSEA Local 830 on their TRO against Nassau County from changing their health insurance! That’s 2 in 2 days. When you mess with a retiree, you mess with us ALL! @NycRetirees in solidarity!

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

Retiree warriors against Medicare dis-advantage go to Washington DC

NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees

@NycRetirees

9 months

The Retirees took our fight to Washington DC and met with congressional leaders to discuss horrible Medicare Advantage plans! Delays & denials of care #PriorAuthorization @RepKatiePorter @SenWarren @chuckschumer @rosadelauro @RepJeffries @RepJayapal @maziehirono @RepLloydDoggett

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

6 months

When a former councilwoman helps your fight, you know you’re on the right side of history. CM Margarita Lopez remembers Mary Pinkett fighting to protect Medicare & retirees and she’s joined by our retirees!❤️

Feminismo Global | ¿Truco o Trato Alcalde Adams?

En este episodio de Feminismo Global, Margarita López conversa con varios grupos de personas jubiladas que laboraron en el sector público y ahora se enfrenta...

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

Whose brilliant idea was this? @NYCMayor @NYCComptroller @JustinBrannan @NycRetirees and yet you allow our Medicare funding to be stolen claiming you’re broke!

NYC spent $9M in taxpayer dollars sending $5 bills with surveys —...

The city spent nearly $9 million to produce and send out a survey with $5-bill incentives — which critics say most likely wound up in New Yorkers' trash.

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 months

@NYCMayor . @NycRetirees had an American dream. We worked for the @NYCMayor for a pension and health benefits and you keep trying to take that away. We earned our Federal Medicare and you forcing us into an inferior plan will harm or kill some of us and that is criminal after WE SERVED.

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

On #medicare you know what you have, almost all doctors except it. No prior authorizations. @Aetna #medicareDisAdvantage isn’t widely excepted & has prior authorizations that wrongly delay & deny care. People have died as a result. If it was so good, they wouldn’t force you on it

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 months

Thank you 🙏 @NYDailyNews @C_Sommerfeldt for following our fight. To Gary Altman for sharing his real life experience that many of us just read about. To Mary Pinkett for being that union leader/council champion and for @CMbarron2 for having our back ❤️let’s pass #intro1099

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

4 months

When @NYCCouncil @NYCSpeakerAdams @CnDelarosa abandon @NycRetirees & purposely blocks their bill from the democratic process, refusing to protect the federal public health benefit of Medicare, your bill dies #intro1099 . We WILL SEE YOU IN 2024 & so will the rest of the world

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

We started in Manhattan with 60 retirees and #amtrack took us to #WDC to meet congress about the horrors of Medicare Advantage and the plan @NYCMayor and @NYCSpeakerAdams @UFT @DC37nyc are forcing us into by @aetna @RepJeffries @SenWarren @SenSchumer @rosadelauro @RepKatiePorter

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

. @EricDinowitzNYC stated he vehemently opposed @NycRetirees being forced into Medicare Advantage, but hasn’t signed Intro 1099 yet @Gothamist @CityAndStateNY @politico @WorkBitesNews @C_Sommerfeldt

We need real health care change, but not Advantage - The Riverdale Press

In 2007, I began my career as a New York City public school special education teacher right here in the Bronx.

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

6 months

. @NycRetirees feels the loss of Retiree “Melissa L.” Who passed away after a repeated struggle with cancer. The last years of her life were spent fighting to protect her life and her #Medicare because @NYCCouncil didn’t. May your memory be a blessing- it is to us who knew you ❤️

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

6 months

. @AARP @AARPNY @DBunis love the article in the Oct bulletin. I will make ONE correction, #medicare advantage is not increasingly being chosen by new enrollees, they are being auto enrolled into them by employers evading responsibility & greedy insurance companies like @Aetna

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

4 months

I’m going to bed early to get up to speak with Manny and Scott and Bob at 0700! Happy new year fellow labor warriors protecting healthcare from pariahs! Here is to victory in 2024!!

Bob Hennelly

@stucknation

4 months

7 a.m. ⁦ @WBAI ⁩ 99.5 FM ⁦ @stucknation ⁩ ⁦ @pchowder ⁩ ⁦ @MannyPastreich ⁩ ⁦ @32BJSEIU ⁩ on deal for building service workers; ⁦ @FDNYchic ⁩ update on ⁦ @NycRetirees ⁩ battle; ⁦ @scottdesno ⁩ on healthcare as a human right.

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

5 months

Remember when we said the @UFT negotiated a contract on the backs of other unions and retirees for the first time in history? We weren’t lyin’. @UFOA854 @UFANYC @CeaNypd @NYCPDDEA @sbanypd @DC37nyc @PSC_CUNY @JustinBrannan @GaleBrewerNYC @NYCSpeakerAdams

Mulgrew and UFT Unity, Not MLC, Initiated Health Cuts

Claims otherwise are false. -- By Arthur Goldstein and Daniel Alicea

thewire.educators.nyc

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

Join me and @NycRetirees @ @AdyBarkan @BeaHero going to DC. We want our #Medicare not a crappy #medicareAdvantage plan like @aetna the @NYCMayor is forcing us into. If their plan was so great people would CHOOSE it, not be forced into it and it’s still not Medicare

Ady Barkan

@AdyBarkan

9 months

Want to join the movement to #ReclaimMedicare ? Join the @BeAHero team on July 25th in D.C. to tell @POTUS we’re sick and tired of greedy healthcare corporations denying and delaying our care.

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

Herbert Haber, OLR chief negotiator told @nytimes Victor Gotbaum DC 37 “Vic will cut your heart out if he feels you are hurting his members.” @bgotbaum can affirm Vic’s @DC37nyc would never diminish earned and paid for benefits. We are retired union labor! #protectRetirees

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

. @NYCCouncil @CnDelarosa @AmandaFariasNYC @NYCSpeakerAdams @NYCMayor learn the truth. Support retirees. Protect traditional #medicare because it’s the right thing to do as an #American non not just a NYer. If @SenWarren @RepKatiePorter @rosadelauro @RoKhanna support us U should2

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

1 year

The @NycRetirees were honored tonight and we were all on stage together!!!

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 days

@mcuban @NycRetirees has been fighting @NYCMayor @Aetna for two years trying to force us into MA. No one listens that you’re forced into their drug plan whether the copay will bankrupt you or their formulary covers your drug- you can use an outside PDP. Aetna in court (we fund…

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

11 months

. @DC37nyc hear Henry admit they took the money “rightfully or wrongfully” they all did in a deal made with the @UFT

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

The @NYCMayor must think we’re stupid to fall for “perks” like a gym pass or prepackaged unhealthy dry or frozen meals instead of direct access to healthcare. These are the only #silversneakers we need! #sparkle baby!

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

Thank you CM Brannan for your public statement of support of CM Barron’s #intro1099 to protect retirees and #Medicare

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

11 months

When @UFT leadership sells off health benefits for raises and gets exposed by the retirees, in service workers should pay attention because you’re next. We said it for a year. Your plan change is imminent. Added copays and limited networks for savings are givebacks

Arthur Goldstein

@TeacherArthurG

11 months

The @UFTUnity caucus has never lost a seat other than HS Exec. Board. Now they've lost two of 5 paraprofessional seats. Next, they will lose the retirees, after having stolen their Medicare.

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@FDNYchic

8 months

If Michael Mulgrew won’t properly represent the @UFT OT/PT they should seek a union leader who will. They deserve a fair contract not a leader who breaks their unit and forces a revote because he didn’t get his way. This is not democratic. #OTPTproud

Why Are School Therapists in NYC Revoting on a ‘Nothing’ Contract? — Work-Bites

By Steve Wishnia Almost 3,000 occupational and physical therapists [OT/PT] in New York City public schools are in the process of revoting on a contract they rejected by a 2–1 margin last month.

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

2 months

I am not asking, I DEMAND a hearing on @Sedgwick failure to provide healthcare to our 9/11 responders. THEY HAVE NO NATIONAL NETWORK OF PROVIDERS!!! On top of @NYCMayor trying to force us into managed privatized Medicare Disadvantage. We are literally fighting for our lives.…

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

1 year

Did you know @aetna is under investigation by the @DOJPH for fraud? @NYCSpeakerAdams @NYCMayor @CnDelarosa @NYCMOCS @NYC_DOI @NYCBudget @NYCComptroller You want to force @nycretirees into #MedicareAdvantage ? If it was great we wouldn’t be forced into it

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 months

The NYC City Council needs true champions for Municipal Retirees, and Susan Zhuang is one of them! We were happy to come out and help @susanzhuangnyc be the next City Councilmember for District 43!

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

11 months

Hear @UFT mulgrew, who @UFTUnity defends say we need sell off retiree health plans or the active workers will pay premium #MLCvote

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

1 year

Meet Lillian, she is a @NycRetirees from @DC37nyc like me, and she will be 102! And tells @NYCMayor to leave her Traditional Medicare & supplement alone!

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

1 year

#nycretirees won! #again #protect12dash126 now!! Two courts have spoken! Every city council has protected retirees from mayors wanting to strip retirees of hard earned benefits. Will this one? A #BlueRibbonCommission is needed if you need help We earned and paid for this already

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 months

Thank you @RepRitchie for having the courage to protect #Medicare & @NycRetirees . We hope all of NYs elected set the example and join our friends like @SenWarren @RepKatiePorter @RoKhanna @SSWorksPAC & protect us against the privatization of Medicare

Congressman Ritchie Torres with Retiree Sue Dodell Announcing his...

https://ritchietorres.house.gov/posts/u-s-rep-ritchie-torres-announces-new-legislation-aimed-at-protecting-rights-of-seniors-to-access-traditional-medicare-c...

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

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Here is another reason putting seniors into an inferior #MedicareDisAdvantage plan like @aetna will harm retirees. Navigating admin tasks for prior authorization or network issues and billing are a burden that can’t be met.

Seniors’ medical debt soars to $54 billion in unpaid bills

Seniors face more than $50 billion in unpaid medical bills, many of which they shouldn’t have to pay, according to a federal watchdog report. In an all-too-common scenario, medical providers charge…

thehill.com

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

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It’s Christmas Eve & I can’t sleep because a company like @aetna is so evil it once again is trying to force people into its inferior insurance for profit. Forcing people onto a plan that we would NEVER choose SAYS A LOT. 97% of drs in America don’t accept you & neither do we

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 months

@WorkBitesNews @CentralLaborNYC @NYSAFLCIO @CrossRetirees When labor leaders become corporatists and endorse privatization of healthcare it’s time for them to go. All workers should take note we are fighting for our lives while our former unions are stealing our access to Medicare for value in THEIR BARGAINING! We are #laborstrong

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

7 months

. @NYCMayor wants to put 1.2M employees/retirees in the hands of @aetna ? They want our Medicare $ to save them. They abuse workers - this screams for union organizing! @AFLCIO @CentralLaborNYC

CVS pharmacists stage walkout over working conditions, leaving pharmacy counters closed

The walkout in the Kansas City area comes amid national concern over patient safety. Pharmacists say staffing doesn't match rising workplace demands.

www.usatoday.com

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 months

We are union even though we are retired. Labor supported Medicare & got it passed for ALL to have EQUAL access to healthcare. This is a GREAT piece of journalism. #union #retirees #medicare @WorkBitesNews

NYC’s Fighting Retirees: ‘A Wake Up Call to the National Labor Movement’ — Work-Bites

By Joe Maniscalco Despite some very strange efforts to obscure the fact, Medicare remains one of organized labor’s all-time greatest achievements 58 years after President Lyndon Baines Johnson first...

www.work-bites.com

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 months

I believe we can all affirmatively state the Commissioner of OLR LIED to COMRO & @NycRetirees when she said there would be no bureaucratic hurdles to access care or providers & their plan was better or equal to what we have. This was a PURE FABRICATION.

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@FDNYchic

9 months

I wonder if ⁦ @Aetna ⁩ ⁦knows they signed a contract with ⁦ @NYCMayor ⁩ with an ‘arbitrator’ that charges $7500 a day supporting a deal negotiated by Bob Linn at $500/hr as a former city commish & ⁦ @cbcny ⁩ This is nyc tax dollars. ⁦ @NYCSpeakerAdams ⁩

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

5 months

This thanksgiving give thanks to those protecting Medicare like @BeaHero @SSWorks @NycRetirees . Boycott @cvspharmacy @Aetna because they are greedy and forcing people into their plans. Stay on Traditional Medicare, or you might not be able to get it back with a supplement later!

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

Because real labor has morals & ethics and honor those who built their unions and this city! Retirees organized, grass roots fundraiser and built a village to fight City hall! More people come to our rallies than theirs! #laborstrong

A Win for ‘Every American Across This Country Being Lied to About So-Called Medicare Advantage’ —...

By Bob Hennelly Within hours of a New York State Court decision “permanently” enjoining Mayor Eric Adams from forcing 250,000 retired civil servants into the for-profit Aetna Medicare Advantage Plan,...

www.work-bites.com

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

Dear @BrianLehrer @clewisreports @Gothamist did you see this too? We keep saying #medicareadvantage in inferior to #medicare &you imply it’s better because of a “perk” like a gym pass or a ride to DR who won’t take the plan.

How UnitedHealth's acquisition of a popular Medicare Advantage algorithm sparked internal dissent...

“It was very much about following the algorithms and basically not using your clinical judgment,” one former NaviHealth medical reviewer said. “That was very different from before we were owned by...

www.statnews.com

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

11 months

So it appears the crossing guards, our lowest paid workers in @DC37nyc were told that they are going to be laid off because the @NYCMayor is cutting the budget. And this mind you is after they were given a contract. Way to go Henry Garrido! @JustinBrannan any room in the budget

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

. @NYCMayor is having his Aaron Judge year & it’s not good. via @politico @JCColtin not to mention @NycRetirees suing the him three times for forcing us into privatized inferior #medicareDisAdavantage by @aetna and he hasn’t won yet! Retirees - 6 Mayor 0

The New York City mayor is having his Aaron Judge year after all. And it’s not good.

Eric Adams has faced a career worth of drama since mid-June.

www.politico.com

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

1 year

Thank you @BrianLehrer @WNYC the @NycRetirees for the opportunity to express ourselves to you and your audience. There’s more. Lots more. No one dissected all the ways this plan will leave retirees without coverage. The @NYCMayor doesn’t want to know! Let’s do this again!

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

Well @rweingarten you are just as guilty for helping @UFT negotiate its CBA on the backs of other unions, forcing everyone into #medicareadvantage - an inferior plan diminishing benefits for workers & retirees & privatizing Medicare. You also helped misuse the HISF. Hello pot?🤦🏽‍♀️

Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣

@rweingarten

10 months

On top of sky high insurance costs, the cost of living in Florida is rising twice as fast as other parts of the country. But instead of helping working Floridians, DeSantis is pushing culture wars and campaigning for President. #DeSantisSoldOut

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 months

@NYCMayor You say you’re one of us but you’re not. Your advocating forcing us into an inferior health plan & refuse to hear WHY that’s true &!keep spreading the big lie it’s good. If you’re ok with diminishing a benefit we earned when employed, how can anyone trust you. You became a shirt.

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 months

Hey @rweingarten , when the @uft attacks @NycRetirees striping them of their access to federal #Medicare they are not only attacking teachers, they are attacking America, and a public health benefit. Teachers unions exist to protect teachers, not sell them out @ChrisChristie

Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣

@rweingarten

8 months

Let’s be clear: When Tim Scott and Chris Christie attack teachers unions, they’re attacking teachers. Teachers unions exist to give teachers a voice so that they can do their best for kids. #GOPdebate

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

2 months

Shame on @Aetna and companies like @UHC who convince unions & employers to force their retirees onto their inferior plans Medicare disadvantage is NOT #Medicare . Evie is a perky 90ish year old fighter & sure as hell earned her Medicare! @MarkPocan @SenWarren @RoKhanna …

Work-Bites

@WorkBitesNews

2 months

C'mon...if you find yourself at odds with 90-year-old Evie Jones Rich...ain't it time to reevaluate your whole entire life? #ReclaimMedicare #MedicareDisadvantage @NYCCouncil @NYCMayor @SenSchumer @SenGillibrand @CrossRetirees @FDNYchic @educatorsofnyc @RetireeAdvocUFT #Union

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

When @dc37 attacks me as anti union, they are exposing themselves. Loyalty rather than competency is more valuable to them. @NycRetirees have won in court repeatedly showing Henry Garrido violated the law to steal from retirees to enrich themselves. That’s not just criminal 🧵1/2

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

11 months

Fact matter to us. They should to you too. @ebottcher @NycRetirees 96% of doctors in America except traditional Medicare. The few that don’t are typically pediatricians or psychiatrists. Many retirees currently in Aetna, have lost their drs. 1/4

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

9 months

Thank you @aarpny @BethNY ❤️ for your support of @NycRetirees . The @NYCMayor @NYCSpeakerAdams @CnDelarosa @NYCCouncilAyala @NYCProgressives @nycpa need to protect the lives of Retirees, keep their promise and protect Traditional #Medicare .

Op-ed | Mayor needs to reverse decision that shifts retiree health coverage for municipal employees...

New York City was built on the shoulders of hardworking individuals who dedicated their lives to making this city great. Among them are our municipal

www.amny.com

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 months

Here’s another reason not to privatize healthcare, they will keep diminishing benefits. They take away your access to healthcare and drs, give you a perk, then diminish that!

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

8 years

@realDonaldTrump shame shame! All your sheep will now know better.

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

Because history is important let’s keep repeating it @NYDailyNews in 2021 reported this. @galeabrewer @CnDelarosa we asked for an investigation into the health fund as it’s been misused for decades. You gave them our funding when they misused theirs. Sign intro1099…

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

10 months

Yes- And further proof insurance companies have no conscience, they are going around the USA convincing employers and unions their plans are better than traditional Medicare to allow their retirees to be autoenrolled into their plans violating the promises made to them.

Ady Barkan

@AdyBarkan

10 months

"Healthcare executives' pay topped $335 million last year while 100 million Americans were saddled with medical debt." No, this is not an onion headline. Thank you, @wendellpotter , for shining a light on the rampant greed in the healthcare industry.

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

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The TRUTH matters Henry @DC37nyc see pg 4-2nd Paragraph. You sold off retirees to enrich a fund you misused that PAYS ACTIVE WORKER health premium. NOT Medicare Retirees.Are your members ok you sold us off & their FUTURE benefits? Asking for 250k friends

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

11 months

Even the Senate knows #MedicareAdvantage is a scam. @NycRetirees know Traditional #medicare is the way to stay alive @NYCMayor @NYCSpeakerAdams @JustinBrannan @CnDelarosa @C_Sommerfeldt @stucknation @TheIndypendent @AOC @RepBowman

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

2 months

Prior Authorization takes the power to TREAT Patients away from doctors & allows greedy insurance companies like @Aetna @UHC @Humana @ElevanceHealth @Sedgwick to deny needed Medical Treatment. We are seeing this in Medicare DisAdvantage plans. Another Reason @NYCMayor shouldn't…

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Marianne Pizzitola

@FDNYchic

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The @NycRetirees has been contacted by former healthcare salespersons with inside information regarding the tactics of their companies to get employers and unions to force their retirees into Medicare DisAdvantage plans. We decided to see if there were more! PLEASE feel free…

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