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• Tell Postal Officials to Stop the Mail Slowdown

  May 26, 2021: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy wants to permanently implement slower mail delivery and weaken services. Submit a comment to help stop him. Read More >

• Members of Congress Suggest Expanding Medicare Telehealth Options

  May 24, 2021: Early on in the pandemic, the federal government expanded telehealth services covered under traditional Medicare on a temporary, emergency basis. Before, only patients who lived in rural areas could access telehealth options from Read More >

• Hearing Exposes Greed of Drug Corporation AbbVie

  May 24, 2021: According to a study released on May 18 by the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee, the pharmaceutical corporation AbbVie has raised prices 470% in the United States for its widely used drugs Humira and Imbruvica over the pa Read More >

• As Pandemic Eases, Many Seniors Have Lost Strength, May Need Rehabilitative Services

  May 21, 2021: Ronald Lindquist, 87, has been active all his life. So, he wasn’t prepared for what happened when he stopped going out during the coronavirus pandemic and spent most of his time, inactive, at home. “I found it hard to get u Read More >

• Stark Racial Disparities Persist in Vaccinations, State-Level CDC Data Shows

  May 20, 2021: Black Americans’ covid-19 vaccination rates are still lagging months into the nation’s campaign, while Hispanics are closing the gap and Native Americans show the highest rates overall, according to federal data obtained by KH Read More >

• Congress Takes Significant Steps to Strengthen the Postal Service

  May 17, 2021: The U.S. Senate confirmed two of President Biden’s nominees to the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors last week: Ron Stroman, a former deputy postmaster general, and Amber McReynolds, chief executive of the National Vote at Read More >

• Mounting Evidence Demonstrates Need for Action on High Drug Prices

  May 11, 2021: As the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on a bill requiring Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices, a new report found that the pharmaceutical industry spent $92 million on lobbying Congress during Read More >

• Media Coverage of Florida Alliance for Retired Americans’ Lawsuit Over Voting Restrictions

  May 10, 2021: Press Releases Federal Judge Finds Florida Voting Law Unconstitutional in Case Brought by the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans and Others, March 31 Florida Alliance’s Lawsuit Against the State’s Restrictive Voting La Read More >

• Florida Alliance Sues State of Florida to Protect Voting Rights

  May 10, 2021: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed a sweeping new voter suppression bill on Thursday that restricts access to the ballot box for millions of voters. As soon as the legislation was signed into law, the Florida Alliance for Re Read More >