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• Kaiser Health News: It’s Your Choice: You Can Change Your Views of Aging and Improve Your Life

  April 13, 2022: People’s beliefs about aging have a profound impact on their health, influencing everything from their memory and sensory perceptions to how well they walk, how fully they recover from disabling illness, and how long they live. When aging is...Read more >

• Social Security Field Offices Reopen Nationwide

  April 11, 2022: Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), announced this week that Social Security Field Offices would re-open nationwide on April 7 for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to close. While...Read more >

• Medicare Limits Coverage of Aduhelm to Patients in Clinical Trials

  April 11, 2022: Citing data showing the new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm has serious safety risks and may not help patients, Medicare officials decided Thursday to limit coverage of the drug to patients in clinical trials. The decision is extremely unusual for Medicar...Read more >

• Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed as 116th Supreme Court Justice

  April 11, 2022: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court in a bipartisan, 53-47 Senate vote Thursday. All 50 members of the Democratic caucus were joined by Republican Senators Susan Collins (ME), Lisa Murkowski ...Read more >

• Kaiser Health News: Insulin Copay Cap Passes House Hurdle, But Senate Looks for a Broader Bill

  April 06, 2022: Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) talks to reporters as she heads to the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 7, 2022, in Washington. (CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES) The chances of passing election-year legislation to help people afford insulin — which weeks ago see...Read more >

• FDA, CDC Clear Second COVID-19 Boosters for Americans Age 50 and Older

  April 04, 2022: This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized additional doses of the COVID-19 booster shot for adults over the age of 50. Following the decision, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its booster recommendations...Read more >

• President Biden’s 2023 Budget Offers Benefits, Protections for Older Americans

  April 04, 2022: President Joe Biden unveiled his proposed budget for the 2023 fiscal year this week, calling for $5.8 trillion dollars in spending on a number of federal programs. Along with funding for national defense and action to combat climate change, the budge...Read more >

• Alliance Praises House Passage of Legislation to Reduce the Price of Insulin

  April 04, 2022: The United States House of Representatives passed the Affordable Insulin Now Act, H.R. 6833, by a vote of 232-193 on March 31, capping the cost of insulin at $35 per month for all Medicare beneficiaries and many other Americans of all ages who need t...Read more >

• Federal Judge Finds Florida Voting Law Unconstitutional in Case Brought by the Florida Alliance and Others

  April 04, 2022: A federal judge struck down Florida’s restrictive voting law, S.B. 90, on Thursday, finding the bill that passed in 2021 to be racially discriminatory. “Older Floridians take voting seriously and we are grateful that the Court today struck down S...Read more >

• Kaiser Health News: Pharma Cash to Congress

  March 31, 2022: Every year, pharmaceutical companies contribute millions of dollars to U.S. senators and representatives as part of a multipronged effort to influence health care lawmaking and spending priorities. Use this tool to explore the sizable role drugmakers...Read more >