Health insurers kill medicare plan change that city-job retirees railed against
With a lawsuit slowing things down, Anthem and Empire BlueCross have pulled out of a controversial deal to change retired municipal employees’ Senior Care to a privately run plan “given the level of uncertainty at this time.”
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New York City’s years-long effort to shift retired city workers to a cost-cutting health care plan was dealt a major blow Monday when the insurer in charge of running the plan announced that it is withdrawing from the deal.