Retirement Security

• Resolution Medicare

  June 26, 2013: Adopted September 6, 2002 Amended May 12, 2006 Amended June 26, 2013 Whereas Medicare is the nation’s largest and most successful health insurance system serving the health needs of almost 57 million senior and disabled beneficiaries; and Wher...Read more >

• Resolution: Medicaid

  June 26, 2013: Adopted May 12, 2006 Amended June 26, 2013 Whereas the Medicaid program, a joint federal-state program, provides health care to 60 million Americans, including nearly 8.3 million Medicare beneficiaries; and Whereas Medicaid is the primary governm...Read more >

• Retirees to hold Social Security Birthday Rally in York, PA

  August 17, 2011: For Immediate Release August 12th, 2011                                                                                            ADVISORY: Retirees to ho...Read more >

• Debt Ceiling Negotiations Continue to Cause Uncertainty

  July 22, 2011: President Obama had once set Friday, July 22, as the day when an agreement had to be reached so that corresponding legislation to raise the debt ceiling could be drafted and passed by the House and Senate. However, that timeline has now been extended...Read more >

• Resolution Second Economic Stimulus

  November 14, 2008: Adopted November 14, 2008 Whereas the current economic deterioration has caused increased fiscal distress for states resulting in cuts and reductions to health care coverage for millions of older adults; and Whereas the current economic deteriora...Read more >

• Resolution Holding Down Energy Costs

  June 17, 2008: Adopted June 17, 2008. Whereas commodity price increases have placed a disproportionate burden on older Americans who are on fixed incomes; and Whereas gasoline prices now average more than $4 per gallon, a 267 percent increase since 2001; and ...Read more >

• Resolution Long-Term Care

  March 29, 2007: Adopted September 6, 2002 Amended March 29, 2007  Whereas long-term care covers a range of services in a variety of settings; and Whereas 10 million Americans of all ages living in communities and nursing homes have significant limitations in a...Read more >

• Resolution Housing and Services for Older Americans

  March 29, 2007: Adopted   September 6, 2002 Amended   March 29, 2007 Whereas the bi-partisan Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Facility Needs for Seniors in the 21st Century has determined that there is “A Quiet Crisis in America.” A minority of ...Read more >

• Resolution National Health Care

  September 06, 2006: Adopted September 6, 2006 Whereas the United States is the only major industrialized country without a universal system of health care; and Whereas the United States spends more money on health care per capita than any other industrialized countr...Read more >

• Resolution Health Care Price Transparency

  September 06, 2006: Adopted September 6, 2006 Whereas there is a strong tradition of secrecy regarding price information for health care services; and Whereas health care providers have little incentive to disclose prices because health care services are lucrative; ...Read more >