Medicaid

• Retirees Slam GOP’s Tax and Budget Bill for Putting All American Seniors’ Health Care at Risk

  May 21, 2025: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Alliance for Retired Americans today condemned House Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” as a direct attack on the health care of nearly every senior in America. According to a new report from the Congressional...Read more >

• Executive Director Fiesta Briefs Machinists on Threats to Retirement Security and How to Fight Back

  May 16, 2025: Alliance Executive Director Richard Fiesta spoke to retirees from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) this week. He provided an overview of the Alliance’s work and updated attendees on key retiree issues, incl...Read more >

• GOP Budget and Tax Plan Advances in the House of Representatives

  May 16, 2025: The House of Representatives moved closer to a final vote on its so-called “big, beautiful bill” tax and spending plan this week. As of today, the plan calls for $715 billion in cuts to Medicaid and $300 billion in cuts to food assistance prog...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump Froze Out Project 2025 in His Campaign. Now Its Blueprint Is His Health Care Playbook.

  February 26, 2025: Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s premier federal cancer research agency. But funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health were presaged...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Montana’s Medicaid Expansion Conundrum

  February 25, 2025: HELENA, Mont. — Despite concerns about what Congress and the Trump administration might have planned for Medicaid, Montana’s Republican-led legislature and GOP governor appear ready to keep the state’s Medicaid expansion program in place beyond...Read more >

• KFF Health News: GOP Takes Aim at Medicaid, Putting Enrollees and Providers at Risk

  February 21, 2025: Medicaid is under threat — again. Republicans, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing proposals that could sharply cut funding to the government health insurance program for poor and disabled Americans, as a way to finance President Donald T...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Republicans Are Eyeing Cuts to Medicaid. What’s Medicaid, Again?

  February 19, 2025: In January, during a congressional hearing on his way to becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got basic details wrong about Medicaid — a program he now oversees. He said that Medicaid is full...Read more >

• Does President Trump Think Older Americans Are Dumb?

  February 19, 2025: Alliance for Retired Americans leader Richard Fiesta released the following statement regarding President Trump’s endorsement of the House Budget Resolution which will slash billions from Medicaid: “Last night on a Fox News interview with Sean...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Across the South, Rural Health Care Has Become ‘Trendy.’ Medicaid Expansion Has Not.

  February 06, 2025: WALHALLA, S.C. — Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a small primary care clinic run by Clemson University draws patients from across the region. Many are Hispanic and uninsured, and some are willing to travel from other counties,...Read more >

• Alliance for Retired Americans Urges Senate to Reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services

  January 30, 2025: Alliance for Retired Americans leader Richard Fiesta released the following statement today regarding Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). “During his confirmation hearings, Mr. Kennedy demonstrate...Read more >