Thanks for Your Service
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel has already ordered sharply higher health care contributions from 313 City Hall bureaucrats, including himself.
He’s also cut a deal with organized labor to wring $20 million in savings out of their health care costs, using tele-medicine, expert second opinions before surgery, diabetes management and higher co-payments.
On Friday, the mayor lowered the boom on retirees — by completing a three-year phaseout of the city’s 55 percent subsidy for retiree health care and assuming that a lawsuit that seeks to reinstate the subsidy of $108.7 million a year falls flat.
“These participants will see an additional reduction in the city subsidy by approximately 25 percent commensurate to the subsidy reductions in 2014 and 2015. The reduction in the subsidy marks the third year of a phaseout for those who retired after August 23, 1989. The reduction will save the city approximately $30 million in 2016,” the mayor’s office said in a statement.
Next motion date for the retiree lawsuit is 26 October.
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posted by SCC at 12:33 AM
62 Comments:
I was at riot fest tonight and couldnt believe ice cube was up there performing "fuck the police" on 9/11. Great times we live in. Anyone gonna call him out on this outrageous behavior. Howany police gave there lives on this day 14 years ago. Fuck you
We should just tell Rahm we'll work for free, no insurance at all, be on call 24/7, and thank Rahm for the privledge of working during his Term(s)
Insurance cuts at a time in life when U need it most. That's bullshit if I ever heard it. A person who doesn't do this kind of work shouldn't be able to make such important decisions without somewhere to harvest empathy for those that are 1st Responders.
In old age when those injuries start really fucking w/Ya Ur not going to be in a position to argue w/zeal.
What a bullshit artist
..."assuming that a lawsuit that seeks to reinstate the subsidy of $108.7 million a year falls flat."
..."Emanuel is rolling the dice, just as he did by authorizing a school budget that assumes $480 million in pension help from Springfield that may never come."
As the city issues new bonds to cover existing debt payments, we watch the snake eat it's own tail.
Countdown to Detroit in 5... 4... 3...
Remember all the contracts that said you get these benefits? Too Bad!
You f'ed up, you trusted us!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOXtWxhlsUg
Retired says, "that miserable little low life cocksucking prick should have Hell to fall on him and his stinking fucking family too".
I'll bet that little cocksucker didn't stay up till three in the morning watching the brave souls of PDNY, FDNY, Port authority, and every other unit of first responders through themselves into the HELL of the NY Trade Center attack. Instead he fucking cuts off retiree's health insurance. The is a special place in Hell for that little prick and all generations of his family. May he fucking die before I do so I can piss on his grave.
And they wonder why recruitment is down ? Go elsewhere where promises are kept. Has NYC reduced the Supt's benefits ? No, they respect their first responders.
"Y'all get sick, it be yo own fault" argument so popular today...
"..He’s (Rahm) also cut a deal with organized labor to wring $20 million in savings out of their health care costs, using tele-medicine, expert second opinions before surgery, diabetes management and higher co-payments..."
The Death Panel has arrived!
Some clown ex telemarketer in India will be the health care decider.
After these "experts" wring every last dime out of our retirement assets do not worry as the welfare programs such as food stamps awaits to give them total control over our lives. Put down that sugary soft drink now.
THE AMERICAN DREAM
Google this:
'social security disability running out of money in 2016'
I guess the plan is to borrow from regular social security retirement fund to bail the SSDI out. Which of course drives that out of money even sooner.
Karma's a bitch , Mr. Mayor.
How about just raise the rates on unhealthy folks? Don't take care of yourself? Pay more ..
Please Don't act surprised by this....We Knew this was coming. Get out as soon as you can, and do what you need to do.
I call that a reduction in benefits, prohibited and upheld by courts all over the states.
oh, and fuck you Rahn
I bet your uncle, Les S is really proud of you for fucking him and other retirees when they are most vulnerable
This prick.....NEVER a reduction in alderasshole budgets,NEVER a reduction in welfare benefits,Safe Passage, waste of money, pandering to the welfare class.NEVER any discussion of trimming alderassholes from 50-25..but let's fuck the men and women that actually worked for a living, you know the ones that didn't grow up getting cradle to grave handouts.
(Grrrrrrrr....) There is sooooo much crap in this article that I really don't know where to start. So this will have to suffice.......
Burke is a fucking ASSHOLE!
OT: Guess who doesn't get to have a sense of humor anymore:
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Instagram-Videos-Show-San-Francisco-Police-Officers-Laughing-About-Shooting-Suspects-326748971.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_CHBrand
keep working....the city could care less about you,illegal aliens will get more benefits then us soon!
Every retiree out there should immediately have every single medical test and/or procedure done before the end of the year. Any and every medical issue you have, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant now, make an appointment with a specialist. Do not put it off. The very last months of the year are difficult to get appointments because everyone is trying to beat the next years deductibles, which they have already met this year. If you can get multiple months of prescriptions, do it now. Got a hand nail? Have it viewd by a doctor. Don't have eyeglass insurance. See and opthomologist for the "pain" in your eye and get a vision test done on the city and take your prescription to Sears or wherever. Protect yourself as well as you can now but because the little prick won't in the future. Bleed him for his unconsionable actions and betrayal.
BCBS only administrates the City Plan. rahmasshole pays for the actual costs incurred. Put your tax dollars to work for you if still in the city, and if you have moved, still make him pay.
Sorry for my 3:00 am rant spelling and grammer errors. Typing too fast.
That little bastard elects to make this announcement on the same day that people across the country are paying respects to the brave men/women heroes of the NY MOS [members of service] who walked into the 911 inferno of Hell and made the ultimate sacrifice, and those who survived, till this day, still suffer the consequences of their actions.
There is a special place in Hell for rahm.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I was at riot fest tonight and couldnt believe ice cube was up there performing "fuck the police" on 9/11. Great times we live in. Anyone gonna call him out on this outrageous behavior. Howany police gave there lives on this day 14 years ago. Fuck you
9/12/2015 12:43:00 AM
Rahms has been saying that a long time! Look at benefits being cut, no hiring, crying about funding the lawfully required pension funds! Ice whatever is a pos but you can bet not just the black lies matter crew, but the white wannabe thug suburban kids sang along! Wait till Trump removes all the illegally here invaders, with millions gone can Trump shift the trillion over to first responders health care plans? Bet it will be easier to get into hospitals without being stuck by waiting for free care for illegals clogging emergency rooms everywhere! As a matter of fact I have written to Trump in New York and his office responds he says that the Trump organization is pro-military and pro-police and Fire! That is what we need Trump could be "change we could believe in!"
Time to send some more money to the lawyer....every diminishing retiree benefit action has been OVERTURNED in every court in the land. Why this little phuck thinks he can get away with doing this is beyond me, Korshak settlement or not. We need some very smart CPA's to find out what this city really does what the Money, what that do-nothing city council and all it's hangers-on costs, how much the welfare cradle to grave for 5 generations is costing the CPS, the social agencies, etc. And where oh where is the TIF money going, and to whom?
This city should be renamed Sherwood Forest, robbing Joe Little Guy to give to the Poor AND the Rich.
Ram has already cost me thousands more in health costs. Now $109.00 more a month ($529.00) for a supplement to Medicare. Yet the Illinois Supreme court says that retirement benefits can not be reduced. Only in Illinois.
Rahm wants retirees to fuck off and die.
Some gratitude by the slimy bastard huh?
>>>retired H2O said...
This prick.....NEVER a reduction in alderasshole budgets,NEVER a reduction in welfare benefits,Safe Passage, waste of money, pandering to the welfare class.NEVER any discussion of trimming alderassholes from 50-25..but let's fuck the men and women that actually worked for a living, you know the ones that didn't grow up getting cradle to grave handouts.
9/12/2015 09:42:00 AM<<<
Why is that? Because the WELFARE CLASS under the rule of the plantation overseers always votes because that keep their government handouts coming. It keeps them poor and buying dope on street corners and money is passed up to the politicians.
Cops on the other hand DO NOT VOTE. Why is it that no FOP President ever led the charge saying the every cop will vote, every cop's family member and every cop's friend and neighbor will vote.
But every FOP President has had a cushy six-figure job handed to him when he leaves the FOP. Even if the job has to be created for him.
Register and Vote!
We all knew this was coming.
And Rahm says, "Fuck you very much for the years of not seeing your family, having to work a second job to put your kids through a decent school, working the shittiest hours ever imaginable. Don't worry about that heart condition, diabetes, HBP, stress and other ailments that are waiting for you. You knew this when you chose this profession. Don't worry about the dead babies you had to carry out, fellow officers that dies for this city and general fucking stupidity that ignorant fucking citizenry make you deal with everyday. Doesn't matter that when you signed your contract that stated that you would receive free health care during your career and when you retire will be there or that you could be promoted for having a GED or HS diploma Doesn't matter that you HAVE to live in this shithole city per the contract. We will enforce the parts of that contract you signed long ago that we want to hold over your head. And fuck the state constitution. That doesn't mean shit. Just go quietly into the twilight of your life knowing I fucked you in the ass without lube one more time on your way out the door. Oh, and did I say FUCK YOU!?!?".
Oh, sure, Rahm is going to get three minutes with a doctor on a TV set.
Right.
I went to public school and even I can figure this is a reduction. Since turning 65 my cola gave me $360 before taxes. My hospitalization went up to $790. Now in January I get another $120 before taxes. And Rahm gets an additional $425 a month from me. But this is not a reduction in my pension????
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Retired says, "that miserable little low life cocksucking prick should have Hell to fall on him and his stinking fucking family too".
9/12/2015 02:54:00 AM
Hey SCC, seriously, nice job of editing my rather lengthy and over the top diatribe that I let loose on in the comment section early this morning. Rather than chuck the whole posting, at least you you let me get a "shot" in at the little POS. Thanks. lol
How about cutting all the free shit to the people who don't need it? How about cutting the aldermatic slush funds? How about completely wiping out the deputy chief, deputy commissioner position?
Let's not even get started with the private contracts and unneeded construction projects..
Why does he always go after pensions and retiree healthcare??
Open up the books and see our City is not broke but hiding Billions of dollars..
Just Sayin..
Do you think Napolean and all his alderthieves suffer the same cuts and have to jump through all the hoops that we do?
If you do then I've got a bridge to sell you.
Just taking it away from the workers and giving it to the illegals and welfare scum breeders! That is transfer of wealth or in the Blue Shirt police case "Perceived wealth!" This goes on and on, and you street coppers keep busting your humps and for what? this is your end also, no pension, no benefits hey boss I got it as boss denies everything and your the next "media whore" getting indicted, losing your home-freedom-family!
So my spouse,who is on Medicare, and I will pay 1500.00 a month. My yearly mammograms are not covered and now my once every ten years colonoscopsy due to both parents dying of stomach cancers will not be covered even though the doctor wrote family history on the order. I dont understand how the city gets away with this.
Well for all of you still working just wait until you see the benefit stuff you get when its time for enrollment, just read carefully!!!! Your out of the pocket cost will increase, Co-pays are going up, and the city is going to make you all go to hospitals and doctors who will work for less!!! It was in the Tribune on FRIDAY!!!!
you elect them, now enjoy the fruits of your labor
Well since you know you've got a shit sandwich coming your way when you retire,why do anything?Seriously any copper that brings in a dimes worth of revenue is a special kind of idiot.And a big fuck you to anybody on the job that voted for this asshol.I can think of a few.
F%*K you very much....!
Rahm
These fools think telemedicine will reduce costs, just like reviews of cat scans? Let me tell you something. If you have a headache or stomach pain, its easier to get a cat scan by going to the ER than your primary doctor. Your primary has to beg to some unnamed review doctor and maybe you will get a cat scan in one to two weeks,... or not. Go to the ER and you get the scan the same day. So where is the savings?
So the Labor unions are on board with this? Thanks FOP and CFD. You are in Rahm 's back pocket and don't have the balls to say no because you sold your souls with your contracts. But you denied being forever in his debt.
Is it possible to do a post asking those who took the insurance plan at 55 how it's working out? With the deadline for next year's sign up upon us it could be beneficial to many to know.
Rahm along with his stooge lawyers will lose this lawsuit just like they lost the pension lawsuit.
Anonymous said...
How about just raise the rates on unhealthy folks? Don't take care of yourself? Pay more ..
9/12/2015 07:56:00 AM
Hey dickhead, shit like cancer from working in cancer causing city buildings or being around or near a toxic fire scene and other not so good situations you are put in just doing your job can and will make you "unhealthy"! Than the city says tough shit deal with it, and we are cutting your benefits. While your taking care of yourself, go fuck yourself too!
Anonymous said...
So my spouse,who is on Medicare, and I will pay 1500.00 a month. My yearly mammograms are not covered and now my once every ten years colonoscopsy due to both parents dying of stomach cancers will not be covered even though the doctor wrote family history on the order. I dont understand how the city gets away with this.
9/12/2015 06:10:00 PM
Consider that if you got a fecal test kit from your doctor, and did as instructed but added a bit of blood to the sample via a needle pricked finger, the test would become a medical necessity and would probably be covered. Not a suggestion;just mind rambling here.
And just exactly how much was cut from the Welfare Budget, Rahmmunist ?
Oh, Nothin Again. Oh, Sorry, I forgot, that's how Communism works, excuse me, I was thinking that I still lived in a Free Country.
Do you really think sacrificing your well being for others is worth a life time of health care bills your going to pay. If you consider this then you understand society has spoken. You arent worth it. Money is much more important than you. That said, just remember 1 % exection; 99% perception.
Re:
"Anonymous said...
Every retiree out there should immediately have every single medical test and/or procedure done before the end of the year."
Yes. However, speaking from experience here, any and all wellness & screening tests are NOT covered by my Blue Cross/Blue Shield plan (non-medicare)
Pray that you don't have a cancerous growth brewing, because you won't know
about it soon enough.
MAKE SURE your doctor's office codes your visit correctly, INSIST that your visit is medically necessary and not a wellness visit, feel-good checkup, etc.
Otherwise, the insurance company will NOT pay the doctor, or for any subsequent test bills. Doctor's office/laboratory billing will come after you, and you will be stuck.
But every FOP President has had a cushy six-figure job handed to him when he leaves the FOP. Even if the job has to be created for him.
Dougherty is working a beat car.
Shields is working a beat.
Donahue is working as a security guard.
So much for your enlightened comments.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Is it possible to do a post asking those who took the insurance plan at 55 how it's working out? With the deadline for next year's sign up upon us it could be beneficial to many to know.
9/13/2015 06:30:00 AM
Been pretty good for me, five years into it, but I really feel for those who retired without it. They're getting hammered. btw, get any heavy dental stuff done before you leave; dental is almost non-existent.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
And Rahm says, "Fuck you very much for the years of not seeing your family, having to work a second job to put your kids through a decent school, working the shittiest hours ever imaginable. Don't worry about that heart condition, diabetes, HBP, stress and other ailments that are waiting for you. You knew this when you chose this profession. Don't worry about the dead babies you had to carry out, fellow officers that dies for this city and general fucking stupidity that ignorant fucking citizenry make you deal with everyday. Doesn't matter that when you signed your contract that stated that you would receive free health care during your career and when you retire will be there or that you could be promoted for having a GED or HS diploma Doesn't matter that you HAVE to live in this shithole city per the contract. We will enforce the parts of that contract you signed long ago that we want to hold over your head. And fuck the state constitution. That doesn't mean shit. Just go quietly into the twilight of your life knowing I fucked you in the ass without lube one more time on your way out the door. Oh, and did I say FUCK YOU!?!?".
9/12/2015 01:25:00 PM
Amen.
.
reduce alderman to 12 , no free education for Illegal Immigrants , no city dollars for gas , electric , free cable , wifii must end
no free lunches and after school care
end all politicians bodyguard details
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Is it possible to do a post asking those who took the insurance plan at 55 how it's working out? With the deadline for next year's sign up upon us it could be beneficial to many to know.
9/13/2015 06:30:00 AM
Just retired August 16 got medical cards 2 weeks later same exact plan as working copper take it before it's not offered anymore! Union for all the bashing did us a huge solid with this!
That tear in his eyes during campaign against choo choo cheuy , he admitted he made mistakes , disappointed citizens , vowed to change .
He changed , big tax hike for the working class , still a sanctuary city , free , free , free everything if you entered USA illegally.
Insurance rates went down $250 per month just like his old boss told us , haha,Hana , the jokes on us .
Anonymous said...
Is it possible to do a post asking those who took the insurance plan at 55 how it's working out? With the deadline for next year's sign up upon us it could be beneficial to many to know.
9/13/2015 06:30:00 AM
What exactly do you need to know?If they wish they were paying out the ass for insurance instead??
Is it possible to do a post asking those who took the insurance plan at 55 how it's working out? With the deadline for next year's sign up upon us it could be beneficial to many to know.
9/13/2015 06:30:00 AM
The 55 and out retiree plan provides you and your family with free health insurance until you are 65 years of age; and the health insurance policy that you get is the exact same policy as if you were an "active" employee. If you retire before 55, you will pay a monthly premium for a policy that is for "retired" employees, which is not as good as the policy for "active" employees.
Definitely jump on the 55 and out plan now before it ends. You will get the exact same policy that you had while you were working, and there have been no problems whatsoever.
If you retire before you turn 55, the monthly cost beginning 2016 is $890 for yourself; and if you have a spouse the monthly cost is over $1800. Then in 2017, no more city funded health insurance for retirees; every retiree goes to obamacare. Unless you are one of those who retired with the 55 and out plan.
So active and retired cpd need to go to court on October 26 and show unity and fight for the health insurance we earned.
all officers who were at King riots and getting shot at, and the Democratic Convention getting hit with all kinds of things, we didn't think of not having health insurance at that time when we retired.
Remember Old Man Daley's promise? "You'll never have to worry about health care costs." Yeah, right. At least we're both on Medicare now and it's a little better. How about this? Give us 100% of the Social Security we earned working additional jobs to make ends meet. How about that?
With the deadline for next years 55 and out insurance near, I heard that only 50 of the 100 required have signed up. I never understood the requirement of 100 needed for it to work unless it was just the city making everyone jump through hoops just to make it harder to retire with a benifit negotiated in good faith. What was the real reason for that requirement? Did the city want more people to go or was it one last chance for them to fuck with you?
To anonymous asking about the cost after the 55 and out insurance ends:
I just turned 65, spouse is 62....
Went from ZERO to :
$105 for Meducare for me
$930 for spouse's BC/BS PPO plan, and my supplement (about $730 for spouse, supp for me about $200)
Plus $36 monthly for dental for me..which comes to $1071.
These are the total amounts deducted from my NET amount, which is about 22% percent of my take home pay.
Guess he doesn't care if I can still pay my mortgage (10 more years), my gas, electric and water bills, my RE taxes,
food, car payment, etc etc.
With the 9 1/2's plan to NOT pay the city's portion, bill will rise about 25% each year beginning in January.
What a rotten phuck he is.
And since the Gov already takes 60% of my S/S, thank you very much, Mr Thieving Rostenkowski, Felon,
am not sure how much more they can take and still be able to make do.
To ALL officers out there! retired now and active, since one day you, too, will be retired: send the lawyer some money. Rahhmer needs to be stopped. To lose HALF your income! then be forced to take Go DIE Obamacare, is not a pretty option.
City better start charging the duty disability pensioners for health insurance that are able to walk , drive , attend school , babysit or work part time the same
Just got my notice of them raising my cost a hundred and one dollars more for 2016. Thanks a lot rahm
Last see he has money for his friends and political donors :
100,000.00 DePaul Basketball Arena
85,000.00 Daley park (pension park)
75,000.00 New Hyatt Hotel next to the DePaul Basketball Arena
250,000 For a new Buena Beef stand at 107th and Western Ave
260,000 for the Beverly Arts Center at 111th & Kedzie that no one goes to
All from public funds that he put into his TIF funds. Our money that should be used for public interests not private ones
It is all Rahm saying fuck you to city retirees and not a sound from his friend and stool holder Larry Msall from the useless Civic Federation
That Ol "Night school Msall" created so he thinks he fits in. He is more despicable that the name dropping fool called Joe Meegan who used to run the I not so Free Fairs at 47th & Damen where nothing was free.
Where is our highly educated FOP president? Maybe he should get a combine together with the national FOP and start a movement to get our fair share of Social Security back like other citizens and elected officials get. There are a lot of people who think that elected politicians are in the same boat as U.S. Well, they are not they excluded themselves from the Winfall Elmination Provision.
The Chicago Tribune reported that our own US Senator tricky Dick Durbin and his wife are currently collecting over 52,000 a year in Social Security along with his senate pay and her Lobbyist pay of 130,000 a year. He will also collect a full senate pension when he retires with his 100% Social Security that they both collect.
When asked why the politicians get full social security the answer was "because we are elected and not employees" that was said with a smirk on the goofs face. Well if they are not officially employees then why are they going to get a pension when they retire. You have to be an employee to get a pension!
How about Jr is he still collecting some social security and or pension for his bullshit disability even though he is a convicted felon?
"and you know, we almost lost Jr"
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