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• 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 >

• Alliance Stands with Those Targeted in Mass Shooting in Buffalo

  May 20, 2022: Robert Roach, Jr., President of the Alliance, expressed his condolences this week to the victims and families of the tragic mass shooting last Saturday in Buffalo, New York at a Tops Friendly Markets grocery store. Ten people were killed, and three o...Read more >

• Alert: Scammers Using Alliance Logo to Obtain Banking Information

  May 16, 2022: The Alliance has received reports of someone using the Alliance logo maliciously in order to obtain people's personal data and banking information. The scammer claims to be helping the recipient get lottery and/or Publishers Clearing House winnings t...Read more >

• Older Americans Month: A Chance to Put Aside Stereotypes About Aging

  May 16, 2022: Americans’ stereotypes about growing older have real consequences for the country’s aging population. Through the process of structural ageism, media portrayals of older people as senile, sick, or unproductive have become ingrained in our institu...Read more >

• American Covid Death Toll Hits One Million

  May 16, 2022: The nation has reached a grim milestone as more than 1 million lives have now been lost to the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States. That includes more than 150,000 nursing home residents, as the facilities’ close quarters enabled the virus to sp...Read more >

• New Campaign Ads Focus on Sen. Scott’s Plans for Medicare, Social Security

  May 16, 2022: A new ad campaign launched this week focused on Sen. Rick Scott's (FL) plan to "sunset" Social Security and Medicare after five years. Scott is the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which recruits and supports Republican candi...Read more >