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• Medicare Fraudsters Now Tap Telemedicine In Medical Equipment Scams

  October 18, 2019: By Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health News  OCTOBER 9, 2019 (Hannah Norman/KHN illustration; Getty Images) Dean Ernest had been living in a nursing home about a year when his son, John, got a call last winter asking if his father was experien...Read more >

• The Deep Divide: State Borders Create Medicaid Haves And Have-Nots

  October 03, 2019: By Laura Ungar, Kaiser Health News A few years ago, Patricia Powers briefly thought about moving from her home in St. Louis County, Mo., across the river into Illinois ― for Medicaid. “You ask yourself: Where do you go? What do you do?” Aft...Read more >

• PropertyShark Examines Housing Options for Older Adults

  September 06, 2019: The real estate website “PropertyShark” polled Americans aged 45 and older about their attitudes concerning housing, retirement and personal finances. More than half of those surveyed want to remain in their current homes during their senior year...Read more >

• Retiree Pam Parker Makes the Case for ACA Prescription Drug Protections

  June 26, 2019: Retiree and Alliance member Pam Parker made the following remarks at a press conference held by Senators Stabenow, Shaheen, and Wyden on June 26, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFMld2k_ITg "Good morning. Thank you, Senator Stabenow, Sena...Read more >

• With Earned Pension Benefits on the Line, Retirees Call on Congress to Pass the Butch Lewis Act

  June 11, 2019: By Richard Fiesta Executive Director, Alliance for Retired Americans The stakes couldn’t have been higher today for 1.3 million Americans when the House Education and Labor Committee approved H.R. 397, the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer P...Read more >

• President Roach, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Work Together to Address Retirement Security

  May 13, 2019: Alliance President Robert Roach, Jr. attended a labor listening session with Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (TX) recently hosted by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW). President Roach said at the meeting th...Read more >

• Sanchez and Pocan Introduce Social Security Expansion Bill that Makes Wealthiest Pay Their Fair Share

  May 09, 2019: The Strengthening Social Security Act of 2019 was introduced on Wednesday by Representatives Linda Sánchez (CA), a member of the Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee, and Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Mark Pocan (WI). The legis...Read more >

• The Money And Politics Of Prescription Drugs: What You Need To Know

  May 09, 2019: By Jon Greenberg, PolitiFact and Kaiser Health News If there’s one area of health care where Republicans and Democrats might strike a deal, it’s prescription drugs. President Donald Trump has floated a plan to cut drug prices. Democratic ...Read more >

• Alliance Endorses Miners Pension Protection Act

  May 07, 2019:   The UMWA 1974 Pension Plan has been decimated by a series of coal company bankruptcies and is projected to go insolvent in 2022. The miners, who risked their lives for years to provide a key source of energy to the nation, and their wido...Read more >

• NY State Attorney General Letitia James Addresses New York State Alliance

  April 30, 2019: “Tish” James, attorney general of the state of New York, delivered a powerful address at the annual conference of the New York State Alliance for Retired Americans (NYSARA) on April 18, 2019 (Listen to her remarks courtesy of the Hudson Mohawk Ma...Read more >