City council declines to take up bill to charge retirees who decline benefit shift

New York City Council leaders announced Jan. 19 they have no plan to pass a bill pushed by Mayor Eric Adams that would allow his administration to charge retired municipal workers for health insurance, the New York Daily News reports. The bill is a last resort in the Adams administration’s longtime effort to enroll the city’s roughly 250,000 retired workers in a cost-cutting Medicare Advantage Plan that critics say would result in inferior health coverage.