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• KFF Health News: Breaking Down Why Medicare Part D Premiums Are Likely To Go Up

  August 15, 2025: Medicare enrollees who buy the optional Part D drug benefit may see substantial premium price hikes — potentially up to $50 a month — when they shop for next year’s coverage. Such drug plans are used by millions of people who enroll in what ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Experts Say Rural Emergency Rooms Are Increasingly Run Without Doctors

  August 12, 2025: EKALAKA, Mont. — There was no doctor on-site when a patient arrived in early June at the emergency room in the small hospital at the intersection of two dirt roads in this town of 400 residents. There never is. Dahl Memorial’s three-bed eme...Read more >

• New Poll Shows Most Americans Are Stressed About Grocery Prices

  August 08, 2025: A new AP-NORC poll shows that Americans are concerned about the high cost of groceries, with more than half of those surveyed reporting that buying groceries is a major source of stress. A large portion of those surveyed also reported that the cos...Read more >

• New Report: Social Security Administration Field Offices Lost An Estimated 20% of Staff This Year

  August 08, 2025: New reporting from Axios detailing the full extent of the Trump Administration’s workforce cuts in Social Security Administration field offices was published Thursday and shows how this is affecting Americans across the country. Axios analyzed a...Read more >

• Alliance Webinar Draws Attention to How Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” Will Hurt Older Americans

  August 07, 2025: On Thursday, the Alliance hosted a special educational Zoom webinar entitled “The Ugly Truth About the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’” outlining the harms created by the Republican budget bill and next steps for fighting back. The bill gives mo...Read more >

• As Medicare and Medicaid Turn 60, Retirees Fight Against Attempts to Cut Them

  August 07, 2025: This Wednesday marked the 60th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, and Alliance members mobilized to protect the health care programs from the biggest threats they have faced since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed them into law in 1965. 72 mil...Read more >

• Bessent Reveals Trump Accounts are a “Backdoor” to Privatizing Social Security

  August 07, 2025: On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that “Trump Accounts” created by the Republican budget bill are a “backdoor for privatizing Social Security,” claiming they could eventually supplement or even replace the earned benefits. H...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Congress Looks To Ease Restrictions on Veterans’ Use of Non-VA Clinics and Hospitals

  August 06, 2025: WATERLOO, Iowa — John-Paul Sager appreciates the care he has received at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics, but he thinks it should be easier for veterans like him to use their benefits elsewhere. Sager, a Marine Corps and Arm...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Chronically Ill? In Kennedy’s View, It Might Be Your Own Fault

  August 01, 2025: On a recent weekday evening, Ashly Richards helped her 13-year-old son, Case, with homework. He did math problems and some reading, underscoring how much he’s accomplished at his school for children with autism. Richards has heard Trump administ...Read more >

• FRAUD ALERT: Phone Scammers Targeting Medicare Beneficiaries

  July 28, 2025: Law enforcement officials and the Federal Trade Commission are warning about a new Medicare fraud scheme targeting seniors. Scammers are exploiting recent changes to Social Security and Medicare—introduced by Elon Musk’s Department of Governm...Read more >