and Hazel Dukes litigation history will show?
and some people worked diligently and others as show by the opinions of bettors did not treat customers well. one fellow who migrated to another OTB summed it up aptly, "I should have been coming here years ago."
As to healthcare the following observations may be made:
1. If Andrew Cuomo and the State and people of New York were interested in treating people with diabetes and autoimmune diseases they would adopt, replicate and/or support the work of Dr. Denise L Faustman, see eg pubmed.org faustman dl and faustmanlab.org. Her work speaks for itself.
2. If the State were a good judge of science and art it would approach the author of The Lancet p.106 Jan. 14, 1978 who started his work under the auspices of the US Veterans Administration at Fort Hamilton and is able to treat the cause of idiopathic pain. You can get a second opinion his work from Dr. Watson, the Nobel Prize winner, formerly of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
One of the few things New York City OTB ever did well was to open on Palm Sunday so bettors could bet and workers could chose to work for double time while they still had jobs. NYC OTB never asked for an Opinion from the NY Attorney General. A free opinion at that. While no one likes to see small fry get fried, it is also amusing that some of those responsible will suffer as well. Nothing is simple?
and don't forget Lennie Allen's secret agent, former NYC OTB Manager Barry Yomtov, now President of Teamsters Local 858 which also represents Nassau OTB employees and is running out of money because of the demise of New York City OTB.
DC 37 pushes OTB health bill
In the meantime, members of the OTB union, DC 37 and other supporters have been phoning and writing the governor in support of the measure.
Here’s the latest news from DC37 on the bill and a sample of a phone script used by supporters.
District Council 37, the city’s largest public employee union, along with its affiliated New York City Off-Track Betting Corp. Employees Local 2021, are pressing New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo to immediately sign a bill that would protect NYC OTB retirees’ health insurance. The bill, A.5785 and S.4489, was passed overwhelmingly in June 2011 by both houses of the state legislature – 88-50 in the Assembly and 51-11 in the Senate – and sent to the Governor’s desk on Sept. 12, 2011 for signature. The governor has up and until midnight Sept. 23, 2011 to sign the legislation.
“It is unconscionable that workers who retired after providing years of exemplary and dedicated service to the NYC OTB Corporation should be concerned that their health benefits will not be restored because of Governor Cuomo’s inaction. Some retirees have life-threatening conditions that require constant care. Failure to restore these benefits that they earned would be devastating,” said Leonard Allen, President of Local 2021 and a thirty-year NYC-OTB former employee. “The Assembly and Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill to restore the retirees’ health care. We call on Governor Cuomo to sign that bill into law.”
NYC OTB retirees lost health coverage as an unintended consequence of the corporation’s closure, in which more than 1,000 active workers also lost their jobs. Health insurance for approximately 900 NYC OTB retirees would be covered by the bill on Governor Cuomo’s desk. Moreover, some 80 percent of those retirees are Medicare eligible and this number will increase in the future thereby reducing costs to the state over time. The union is urging the governor to follow state legislators’ lead in signing the bill to restore their health coverage.
DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts said, “These are workers who deserve restoration of the health care benefits they worked long and hard for during decades on the job. They are a vulnerable population with outstanding health issues, who don’t need to unnecessarily join the ranks of the uninsured. We urge the governor to sign the bill. ”
New York City Off-Track Betting was taken over by the State of New York in June 2008. In December 2009, then Governor Paterson authorized NYC OTB to file for bankruptcy protection. NYC OTB was closed on December 7, 2010, after the New York State Senate failed to pass legislation that would have allowed for its restructuring.
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