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• Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Says DOJ’S Erroneous Statements in Case Over DOGE Handling of SSA Data are Alarming

  April 10, 2026: Statement from Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans regarding the 4th Circuit ruling today in AFSCME, Alliance for Retired Americans, and American Federation of Teachers v. SSA today: “The Read More >

• KFF Health News: Can I Opt Out of Having My Doctor Take Notes With AI?

  April 07, 2026: Family physician Eric Boose has been using an artificial intelligence tool to get back to what he calls “old-fashioned medicine” — talking with patients face-to-face, without having to type into a computer at the same time. Read More >

• KFF Health News: Rising Health Costs Push Some Middle-Aged Adults To Skip the Doc Until Medicare

  March 23, 2026: John Galvin knows he needs a colonoscopy. But he’s waiting to schedule the procedure until December, when he turns 65 and qualifies for Medicare. He was already thinking about delaying it — then his monthly Obamacare insura Read More >

• KFF Health News: Many ACA Customers Are Paying Higher Premiums. Most Blame Trump and Republicans, Poll Finds.

  March 19, 2026: Most people who get their health coverage through the Affordable Care Act say they face sharply higher costs, with many worried they will have to pare back other expenses to cover them, according to a poll released Thursday. Some Read More >

• KFF Health News: Medicare Advantage ‘Dark Money’ Group Attempts To Win Higher Payments for Insurance Companies

  March 13, 2026: Judging by more than 16,400 comments recently posted on a federal government website, you’d think there was a groundswell of older Americans demanding that federal officials hike payments to their Medicare Advantage health insur Read More >

• Alliance for Retired Americans Responds to SSA IG Data Breach Investigation

  March 10, 2026: Whistleblower alleges that a DOGE engineer removed Americans’ sensitive data on a thumb drive Statement of Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans responding to a 3/10/26 Washington Post report Read More >

• New Retiree Voting Record Released

  March 05, 2026: 244 Senators and House Members Earned 0% Pro-Retiree Scores The Alliance for Retired Americans today released its 2025 Congressional Voting Record, which scores each U.S. Senator and Representative on important retirement secur Read More >

• KFF Health News: Even Patients Are Shocked by the Prices Their Insurers Will Pay — And It Costs All of Us

  March 03, 2026: Samantha Smith of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, went into the operating room for emergency removal of an ectopic pregnancy. “I’m grateful I didn’t die,” she said, but she was shocked to see that the outpatient surgery was bill Read More >

• Pennsylvania Alliance President Testifies at Informational Hearing on Online Scams

  February 27, 2026: Pennsylvania Alliance President Mike Crossey joined state lawmakers and other witnesses in Harrisburg on Wednesday to testify about online scams targeting seniors. In his testimony, he discussed how scams allowed to proliferate Read More >

• KFF Health News: State Lawmakers Seek Restraints on Wage Garnishment for Medical Debt

  February 20, 2026: Lawmakers in at least eight states this year are aiming to reel in wage garnishment for unpaid medical bills. The legislation introduced in Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Ohio, and Washington builds on eff Read More >