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Resistance to Medicare Disadvantage; & East River Park Destruction Starts
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Julie Schwartzberg on Medicare "Disadvantage"
Update on Medicare Disadvantage Program Threatening 250,000 NYC Retirees from City Employment
Across the country a wildfire called Medicare Advantage, is destroying traditional Medicare. Private insurance companies are gobbling up the popular traditional Medicare and turning it into a profit center. More than 40% of Medicare has been taken over by these plans. The price for those choosing these so-called Advantage" programs is submitting procedures and treatments to "prior approval" which too frequently ends in denial of care. In September we covered the begining resistance of NYC city retirees to the City's attempt to downgrade their health insurance coverage with one of these plans. This is just one attempt by health insurance profiteers to undo Medicare and reap superprofits. Long-time LGBTQ and labor activist Julie Schwartzberg of Cross-Union Retirees Organizing Committee gives us the latest developments in the local NY City campaign against a for-profit health insurance plan that would eliminate standard Medicare benefits for NYC government retirees .
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East River Park (courtesy Save East River Park)
Update on East River Park Destruction
Part 2: ACT UP/NY Oral History Project
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Out-FM is a weekly progressive queer show on listener-sponsored, noncommercial WBAI/Pacifica Radio. It airs at 99.5 and wbai.org, generally on Tuesdays from 8-9 PM. Please support us by donating to WBAI. Become a member for $25 or a BAI Buddy (sustainer) for $5/month or more. Go to wbai.org or call 212-209-2950 and let WBAI management know you listen to Out-FM by supporting the station with a donation.
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The video of the interview is posted below.
Part 2: ACT UP/NY Oral History Project
Tune to Out-FM on Tues., Dec 7th for news of important developments in the LGBTQI communities. Then we’ll bring you part 2 of our interview with ACT UP Oral History Project co-founder Jim Hubbard. The project’s website has been revamped to make available full-length videos, rather than short excerpts, of all 187 interviews conducted with members of ACT UP/NY. Included in Tuesday’s broadcast will be:
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On Bringing the ashes of those lost to AIDS to the White House.
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On the Use of the Guantánamo concentration camp to detain HIV-positive Haitians.
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Discussing law enforcement Infiltration of ACT UP & and how the group organized with many other activist groups a secret civil disobedience to shut down 4 entry points to Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn |
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On the harrassment of women AIDS activists by NY police who strip-searched them! |
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Discussing the aftermath of AIDS for people with AIDS who survived, creating An Epidemic That Never Ends |
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Click HERE for Part 1 of the Interview |
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