Medicare

• KHN: Long-Term Care Is An Immediate Problem – For The Government

  August 01, 2016: By: Anna Gorman and Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kaiser Health News a national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Donna Nickerson spent her last working years as the activity and social services...Read more >

• Ryan’s “Better Way” for Health Care Would be Dangerous for Seniors and Inferior to Current Medicare System

  June 22, 2016: Seniors Would Have to Wait Until 67 for Coverage The following statement was issued today by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, in response to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s release of “A Better Way” health ...Read more >

• KHN: Senate Panel Kills Medicare Program That Offers Help On Enrollment, Billing Issues

  June 17, 2016: By: Susan Jaffe, Kaiser Health News a national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. A program that has helped seniors understand the many intricacies of Medicare as well as save them mill...Read more >

• Strengthening Medicare Without Shifting Costs to Beneficiaries

  April 06, 2016: When it comes to strengthening Medicare, it is important to avoid changes that shift additional costs to seniors. The Alliance recently submitted comments for the record to the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee regarding this...Read more >

• Strengthening Medicare Without Shifting Costs to Beneficiaries

  April 06, 2016: When it comes to strengthening Medicare, it is important to avoid changes that shift additional costs to seniors. The Alliance recently submitted comments for the record to the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee regarding this...Read more >

• Kasich and Jeb Bush Mean Trouble for Seniors

  February 11, 2016: John Kasich and Jeb Bush mean trouble for seniors and retirees. The New Hampshire primary results are in, and the top four for the Republicans were businessman Donald Trump, Gov. John Kasich (Ohio), Sen. Ted Cruz (TX), and former Governor Jeb Bush (F...Read more >

• Silver Tsunami to Bring 25 Million More Medicare Beneficiaries by 2036

  January 27, 2016: [caption id="attachment_3359" align="alignnone" width="300"] Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator[/caption] The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that Medicare enrollment will grow by more than 30 percent over the next ten yea...Read more >

• Postal Banking: an idea whose time has come again

  December 21, 2015: spacing Last week representatives of several grass roots organizations and Washington DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton hand delivered more than 150,000 petition signatures supporting Postal Banking to the U.S. Postal service headquarters. ...Read more >

• Republicans in U.S. House and Senate Plan Ways to Cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

  November 06, 2015: [caption id="attachment_912" align="alignleft" width="150"] Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, after a weekly policy luncheon. From left are, Sen. Roy Blunt...Read more >

• Hundreds of Alliance Members Converge on Washington for 2015 National Legislative Conference

  July 10, 2015: 400 activists came to Washington, DC for the Alliance’s 2015 National Legislative Conference this week. The activists reached more than 150 offices on Thursday’s Lobby Day, when they met with their Members of Congress and Senators and voiced thei...Read more >