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• President Obama Signs Health Care Reform into Law One More Time

  April 01, 2010: On Tuesday, President Obama put his final signature on the health reform bill that has been front and center in the news this year and last.  One of the bill's provisions, the establishment of a federally funded program to cover people turned down b...Read more >

• Health Care Reform: What’s in it for Seniors

  March 26, 2010: The Senate-passed health care reform bill dramatically cleared the House on a 219-212 vote Sunday night, and President Obama signed it into law on Tuesday.  Please see the Alliance's Special Edition Friday Alert of March 23 at http://bit.ly/dttZ01 f...Read more >

• House Passes Historic Health Care Bill, Obama Signs It Into Law

  March 23, 2010: House Democrats passed their landmark health care reform on a party-line 219-212 vote late Sunday night, marking an achievement that has been compared to the enactment of Social Security and Medicare.  For a complete tally of the House vote to appro...Read more >

• Historic House Health Care Vote is Expected on Sunday

  March 19, 2010: House Democrats are "pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously deliver on President Barack Obama's promise to expand coverage while slashing the deficit," according to the Associated ...Read more >

• PARA Statement on the Retirement of PA AFL-CIO President Bill George

  March 15, 2010: For Immediate Release October 15th, 2010                                                       Pennsylvania Retirees Thank Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Bill George for his Years of Service  ...Read more >

• In Week of Health Care Developments, Thousands Gather to Rally Against Insurers

  March 12, 2010: Tens of thousands of activists, seniors, union members, and religious leaders protested against insurance company abuses on Tuesday in front of the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., where America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) leaders were meeting.Â...Read more >

• $250 Payment to Social Security Recipients Voted Down By Senate

  March 05, 2010: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) lost a bid on Wednesday to boost the income of millions of Social Security recipients and offset the elimination of the Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for 2010.  His amendment calling for $13 billion to f...Read more >

• Response to President’s Health Care Plan and Summit: Three Things You Can Do

  February 26, 2010: In order to bridge the differences between the U.S. House and Senate-passed health care bills - and continue to move reform forward - President Obama unveiled his Administration's own health plan on Monday.  The plan contains several major steps t...Read more >

• President Establishes Debt Commission to Look at Social Security and Medicare

  February 19, 2010: Yesterday, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order establishing a commission to tackle the federal debt.  The commission's purpose is to reduce the federal budget deficit from 10% to 3% by 2015 and to propose ways to contain costs related t...Read more >

• Insurance Premium Increase of 39% in California Adds to Health Reform Urgency

  February 12, 2010: The health care problem remains on the center stage now that Anthem Blue Cross of California has unveiled rate increases of up to 39 percent for its 800,000 individual policyholders. The increases, which will take effect on March 1, far outpace the i...Read more >