by Joe Maniscalco, Work Bites https://portside.org/2025-07-16/medicare-advantage-such-threat-workers-they-wrote-paper-it This past April, labor advocates for single payer health care published a white paper called, “Medicare Advantage: What Labor Leaders Need to Know.” In it, the authors remind labor leaders—including those in New York City who spent the last four years trying to push 250,000 municipal retirees into Medicare Advantage—that Medicare Advantage is “neither Medicare (the public, universal program without intermediaries between patients and the healthcare [...]