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.

Marianne Pizzitola, president of the NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees, which was founded to oppose the Medicare Advantage plan, was in disbelief after hearing about the mayor’s change of heart Friday. “I truly do hope this is true,” the former FDNY employee said. “The mayor always said he would land this plane.”

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.