Hands Off NYCare

12/09/2025

NYC retirees earned their healthcare. We need Mayor Mamdani to protect it.

Aurea dedicated 27 years to the City of New York before retiring in 2015. Today, she depends on her health insurance to cover vital cardiac therapy. But if the city switches the municipal workforce into a new UnitedHealthcare plan, she fears losing access to the doctors who know her best and the care she literally cannot live without.

As she puts it: “Where am I going to go? Who’s going to take care of me?”

12/09/2025

“Mayor Mamdani: Please don’t abandon the people who make this city work.”

Chrystle, a 911 operator for 27 years, fears losing access to long-trusted doctors and being forced into an unreliable plan.

New York City is trying to move the municipal workforce into a UnitedHealthcare plan, putting their doctors, coverage, and peace of mind at risk.

NYC must protect the health care municipal workers earned.

12/09/2025

“Mayor Mamdani, do not cut the care that our families rely on.”

After 35 years serving New York City, Dawn is terrified that changes to her health care will leave her unable to see the doctor she relies on.

New York City is attempting to shift municipal retirees into a UnitedHealthcare Plan, risking the dependable coverage workers earned over decades of service.

Our municipal workforce deserves stability, not cuts and confusion.

10/30/2025

New York City public servants are standing up for their health and their rights.

The City wants to replace our trusted, regulated health insurance with a “self-funded” plan that removes state oversight and puts 750,000 workers, retirees, and their families at risk.

This isn’t “cost-saving.” It’s care-cutting.

HandsOffNYCare and city workers are taking this fight to court because every New Yorker deserves health care that’s stable, accountable, and protected by law.

Stand with us.

Read more in Crain’s:

A group of workers and a recently formed advocacy group alleged that the city’s switch to a self-funded plan breaks the law.

10/30/2025

NYC municipal workers and retirees are drawing the line.

A new lawsuit challenges the City’s plan to switch health insurance contracts for municipal employees, saying the new “self-funded” health plan could strip away key protections guaranteed under state law.

As one longtime city worker put it:
“If the City runs out of money, we will run out of health care.”

The lawsuit seeks to safeguard health care access for 750,000 public servants and their families who have earned it.

Read more in :

A coalition of NYC workers, retirees, and an advocacy organization is suing to block a sweeping health-benefits restructuring that would reshape coverage for

10/10/2025

NYC is plotting to strip municipal employees and retirees of the health care they’ve earned. This isn’t just a bad plan – it’s a betrayal. FIGHT BACK!

09/29/2025

🚨We need transparency, not deals behind closed doors🚨

HandsOffNYCare is raising the alarm: tomorrow, the Municipal Labor Committee (MLC) will vote on a new health plan for the municipal workforce that could take away access to the doctors that these employees trust and raise out-of-pocket costs. The new plan would shift municipal employee and retiree coverage to a model run by United Healthcare.

In a new interview with The Chief Leader, our board member Wanda Williams calls out the lack of transparency around the City’s process. She demands the city let municipal workers and retirees see exactly what’s being decided on their health care.

We cannot stay silent – let every municipal worker, every retiree, and every concerned New Yorker know: we won’t accept a backroom deal that undermines our health.

https://thechiefleader.com/stories/uncertainty-about-city-health-plan-abounds-ahead-of-mlc-vote,55174

Citing a lack of details, a number of unions representing New York City municipal workers appear hesitant to sign off on a cost-saving health-benefit agreement city and union officials reached with two major insurance firms in late August. At...

09/29/2025

🚨 Must read in : Wanda Williams lays out exactly what’s at stake if the City switches health insurers for municipal employees: fewer providers, higher costs, and broken promises.

We can’t afford to sit back. Join the fight.

🔗 Read it here:

I’ve spent decades fighting for New York City’s municipal workers, and let me tell you something every New Yorker should know: the city can’t function without us.

09/25/2025

NYC’s new municipal health insurance plan: less care, more risk.

09/12/2025

NYC municipal employees' health benefits are at risk. Protect what our city’s workforce earned.