Mayor Adams announced Friday that his administration will not “at this time” shift the city government’s retired workforce into a cost-cutting Medicare Advantage plan — a move

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the city will no longer move forward with a Bill de Blasio-era plan he previously supported. The plan would've impacted about 250,000 retired municipal workers. Retirees had said the plan would've limited their access to higher cost providers.

Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday that his administration will not move forward with a long-in-the-works switch of health care for the city’s quarter-million retirees to Medicare Advantage, after the state’s highest court issued a unanimous ruling clearing the way for the plan.