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• Pandemic Food Benefit is Set to End, and Seniors Risk Additional Food Insecurity

  January 30, 2023: Next month, a pandemic-related benefit increase for participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program, often referred to as food stamps, is scheduled to expire. The change could come despite advocates warning it will put ma...Read more >

• Drug Corporations Plan Price Increases on Life-Saving Medications Despite Billions in Increased Profits

  January 30, 2023: Major pharmaceutical corporations are set to increase prices on over 350 unique medications this month, continuing a trend of drug industry profiteering, according to Accountable.US and Reuters. A previous Accountable.US report showed that many of th...Read more >

• Democrats Debate Whether President Biden Should Negotiate with Speaker McCarthy on Debt Limit

  January 30, 2023: House lawmakers and the White House continued to spar last week over whether to include Social Security and Medicare in negotiations over raising the debt limit. President Biden has steadfastly pledged not to cut the programs, insisting that the debt...Read more >

• Kaiser Health News: Rural Seniors Benefit From Pandemic-Driven Remote Fitness Boom

  January 27, 2023: MALMO, Minn. — Eight women, all 73 or older, paced the fellowship hall at Malmo Evangelical Free Church to a rendition of Daniel O’Donnell’s “Rivers of Babylon” as they warmed up for an hourlong fitness class. The women, who live near or...Read more >

• Kaiser Health News: Numbers Don’t Lie. Biden Kept His Promise on Improving Obamacare.

  January 18, 2023: Promise: “I’ll not only restore Obamacare; I’ll build on it.” In a speech on Nov. 2, 2020, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden promised, “I’ll not only restore Obamacare; I’ll build on it.” Two years and counting since then...Read more >

• HHS Announces Key Dates for Implementation of Medicare Drug Price Negotiation

  January 17, 2023: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced key 2023 dates for the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program which lowers drug costs for millions of Americans. For the first time in history, because of the Inflation Reductio...Read more >

• House GOP’s Plans to Cut Social Security and Medicare Advance

  January 17, 2023: Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said last Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Republicans don’t plan to alter benefits for current Social Security and Medicare recipients. However, at least 127 members of the House Republican Study Committee ha...Read more >

• Ohio Alliance Files Voting Rights Lawsuit Over New Photo ID Requirement

  January 17, 2023: The Ohio Alliance, Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, Ohio Federation of Teachers and Union Veterans Council have filed a lawsuit over an Ohio law requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls. Previously, voters had been able to show altern...Read more >

• Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – And His Statements Concerning Health Care

  January 13, 2023: Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, January 16, and many of Dr. King’s words remain as relevant today as they were during his lifetime. On March 25, 1966 in Chicago, at a press conference before his speech at the second convention of the Medic...Read more >

• House Investigation into Alzheimer’s Drug Places Blame on FDA, Biogen

  January 09, 2023: The Food and Drug Administration’s process for approving the Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, despite great uncertainty about whether it worked, was “rife with irregularities,” according to a congressional investigation. The report also criticized B...Read more >