WILMINGTON — A rally to oppose the state’s move to a Medicare Advantage plan for its pensioners will be held at Freedom Plaza on Tuesday.
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WILMINGTON — A rally to oppose the state’s move to a Medicare Advantage plan for its pensioners will be held at Freedom Plaza on Tuesday.
Attendees will gather on Eighth and French streets, next to the Carvel State Office Building, for the demonstration.
It is being organized by Retirees Investing in Social Equity Delaware, or RISE Delaware, a group formed to assist state retirees in their fight against the change in coverage. The organization has filed a lawsuit to stop the imposition of Highmark’s Medicare Advantage plan as their only option to keep their health care benefits.
Organizers say the rally is to allow current and future retirees to demonstrate their unwillingness to have their benefits and access to doctors and treatment limited by a “private, for profit, third party such as Highmark.”
It adds that the proposed mandate by the State Employees Benefits Committee limits health care choices for retirees and will supplant the benefits that they “have earned and paid for throughout their working lives.”