(iStock/Getty Images) Bill Curry, 65, raises cattle on the same land in rural Oklahoma once owned by his father and generations before him. Each quarter, for several years, he has made the 2½-hour drive to Oklahoma City for an epidural in his spine to treat his back pain. Bu... Read more
President Donald Trump, who once declared he had “saved” flavored vapes, grew his stock holdings this year to as much as $1.64 million in tobacco giant Philip Morris. He also had holdings in Altria and a third leading tobacco company, though an apparent discrepancy in his ... Read more
The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance, regarding the Trustees’ reports on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds released today. The report states that the Social Security Trust Fund is able to pay full benefits and expe... Read more
Last week, the United States Postal Service (USPS) proposed a new rule that would force states to provide data for mail-in and absentee voters to the federal government, including names, addresses, and envelope barcode information. The move came a day after a federal judge ref... Read more
When Christine Wood received a $12,000 bill from Bristol Hospital, she thought it must be a mistake. It was more than she and her husband made in a month combined. “I’m freaking out,” said Wood, who lives in a 1,700-square-foot home in Terryville, a village just outside ... Read more
Enough time had passed since the patient’s previous colonoscopy that she met the criteria to undergo another, said Steven Itzkowitz, a gastroenterologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She was in “reasonably good health,” and the risks of the... Read more
President Donald Trump earlier this year bought as much as $680,000 in stock of Eli Lilly, the maker of blockbuster obesity drugs, as the agencies he oversees undertook an agenda that largely benefited the company. On May 14, the federal government released ethics disclosu... Read more
Statement from Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of appeals by drug corporations seeking to overturn the Medicare drug price negotiation program: “Today the Supreme Court sided with common ... Read more
A new report found that Meta, the corporation that owns Facebook and Instagram, has failed to stop scammers from repeatedly buying ads that target seniors. The report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that scam ads aimed at older adults are particularly common on... Read more
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