When we are young, we feel betrayed the first time our parents break a promise. Can you remember the first time this happened to you? Even when parents explain their rationale, it is unfathomable to us. Why? Because we believed them. We trusted their word and feel hurt and disappointed when our faith is undermined.

As we age, we continue to feel the same sense of hurt, pain, whenever that trust is broken. But when that broken promise is 50 years old and the consequences are deep and far-reaching, we are talking about a whole different level of suffering. This is what is happening now to 250,000 city workers and their families who have worked tirelessly and selflessly for their communities, a threat that has been looming over them for more than three years, the withdrawal of Medicare healt

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