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• Government Watchdogs Attack Medicare Advantage for Denying Care and Overcharging

  June 30, 2022: Congress should crack down on Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors that sometimes deny patients vital medical care while overcharging the government billions of dollars every year, government watchdogs told a House panel Tuesday. Witnesses ...Read more >

• 100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt

  June 23, 2022: Elizabeth Woodruff drained her retirement account and took on three jobs after she and her husband were sued for nearly $10,000 by the New York hospital where his infected leg was amputated. Ariane Buck, a young father in Arizona who sells health ...Read more >

• Preventive Care May Be Free, but Follow-Up Diagnostic Tests Can Bring Big Bills

  June 16, 2022: When Cynthia Johnson learned she would owe $200 out-of-pocket for a diagnostic mammogram in Houston, she almost put off getting the test that told her she had breast cancer. “I thought, ‘I really don’t have this to spend, and it’s probably...Read more >

• Despite a First-Ever ‘Right-to-Repair’ Law, There’s No Easy Fix for Wheelchair Users

  June 09, 2022: Robin Bolduc isn’t the type of person who takes “no” for an answer — particularly when it comes to fixing her husband’s wheelchair. Her husband, Bruce Goguen, 69, is paralyzed from multiple sclerosis. And without his chair, he would be s...Read more >

• June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month

  June 06, 2022: The Alliance wishes all of our members a Happy Pride Month! More than three million lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender adults over the age of 50 live in the United States. The National Resource Center on LGBTQ+ Aging has resources available...Read more >

• Medicare Beneficiaries Will See A Premium Cut, But Not Until 2023

  June 06, 2022: Medicare beneficiaries will get a premium reduction — but not until next year — reflecting what U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra said was an overestimate of the cost of covering the expensive and controv...Read more >

• Social Security Trustees Report Shows We Can Expand Social Security

  June 06, 2022: The Trustees reports on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds were released on Thursday, showing once again that Social Security’s Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund is strong and solvent, with enough money to cover full benef...Read more >

• ‘That’s Just Part of Aging’: Long Covid Symptoms Are Often Overlooked in Seniors

  June 02, 2022: Nearly 18 months after getting covid-19 and spending weeks in the hospital, Terry Bell struggles with hanging up his shirts and pants after doing the laundry. Lifting his clothes, raising his arms, arranging items in his closet leave Bell short of...Read more >

• CMS Unveils Updated, More User-Friendly Medicare Website

  May 23, 2022: On Wednesday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled several updates to the Medicare.gov website, designed to make it easier to navigate and access information to compare health and drug coverage and find providers. The upd...Read more >

• Health Insurance CEOs Raked in Record Compensation Last Year

  May 23, 2022: The CEOs of America’s seven largest publicly traded health insurance and services companies together earned more than $283 million in 2021 — the most of any year in the past decade by far. Soaring stock prices made up the bulk of the executive...Read more >