Fact Sheets and Position Papers
Medicare Under Threat: WISeR Model Will Use AI to Deny Care in Traditional Medicare – March 2026
Medicare insures more than 68 million Americans, including 61 million people over the age of 65 and more than seven million with disabilities.
The Alliance is strongly opposed to a Trump Administration Medicare Pre-Authorization Pilot Program, called the “WISeR Model”, that begins in January 2026 in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington because it will replace patients’ and doctors’ medical determinations with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) prior authorization process managed by for-profit corporations. Seventeen medical procedures will require AI prior authorization under this pilot.
Strengthening Social Security and Increasing Benefits – February 2026
To continue to provide retirement security for current and future generations, it is time to strengthen and expand Social Security and increase benefits. A growing number of people in Congress recognize the need for action and have introduced legislation to keep the Social Security system strong and ensure current and future Americans receive the benefits they earn over a lifetime of work.
Social Security and Medicare Facts and Figures – January 2026
Nearly 185 million workers contribute to Social Security and Medicare through payroll taxes. Details like benefit amounts and premiums change each year.
Our fact sheet has the latest figures.
Social Security Current Facts and Figures – January 2026
Nearly 184 million workers contribute to Social Security through payroll taxes. Details like benefit amounts and premiums change each year.
Our fact sheet has the latest figures.
Republican Budget Law’s Cuts to Medicaid Puts Health Care for Millions of Older Americans at Risk – July 2025
On Friday, July 4, President Trump signed the Republicans’ Budget Reconciliation bill into law. The law makes the largest cuts to health care and taxes in United States history, while adding at least $3.3 trillion to the nation’s deficit.
The law cuts nearly $930 billion from the Medicaid program while creating $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for corporations and wealthy Americans, putting the health care of more than 9 million older Americans, as well as hospitals and nursing homes, at risk.
Threats to Retirees in Republican Budget Law – July 2025
On Friday, July 4, President Trump signed the Republican Budget Reconciliation bill into law. The bill, which was passed along party lines, makes the largest cuts to health care and taxes in United States history, while adding at least $3.3 trillion to the nation’s deficit.
Debt Commission Legislation Fast Tracks Cuts to Social Security and Medicare – June 2025
On May 8, 2025 Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI), introduced H.R. 3289, the Fiscal Commission Act with 28 original bipartisan cosponsors.
The legislation establishes a 16-member “Fiscal Commission” appointed by congressional leaders. Twelve members of the commission would be members of Congress and the other four would be “outside experts.” It would make recommendations on how to balance the federal budget by
addressing the growth of discretionary and direct spending and revenues, while improving the solvency of Federal trust funds, including Social Security and Medicare, for at least 75 years. There is no requirement that the Commission’s deliberations would be open to the public.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s Biggest Lies About Social Security – March 2025
This fact sheet debunks the biggest lies being spread about Social Security by billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump as they try to weaken the Social Security Administration.
Threats to Medicaid – March 2025
The Alliance for Retired Americans strongly opposes any plans to cut Medicaid. The Republican Party is proposing to put health care at risk for 72 million Americans, including: 8.3 million older adults, 9.1 million people with disabilities, and 31.5 million children.
Social Security Fairness Act – February 2025
On January 5, President Joe Biden signed H.R. 82, The Social Security Fairness Act which eliminates the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) into law. The bill was introduced by Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA), and the Senate companion bill was introduced by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in the 118th Congress.
PRO Act Position Paper – July 2025
The labor movement has been, and continues to be, the leading force in the fight to strengthen Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, ensuring a measure of retirement security for all Americans. Our country, our democracy and our people benefit when workers have a strong voice at work and are able to join together to build a more secure future for their families and their communities.
To strengthen workers’ voices on the job, Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) reintroduced the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, H.R. 20, in the U.S. House of Representatives. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reintroduced the bill, S. 852, in the U.S. Senate.
Inflation Reduction Act Fact Sheet – January 2024
One in four people over the age of 65 report not taking at least one prescription drug as prescribed due to its cost. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical corporations are making record profits, lining the pockets of their executives and shareholders while patients struggle to afford the drugs they need to stay healthy.
To help reverse the pharmaceutical industry’s stranglehold on our health care system, on August 16, 2022 President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. It means lower prescription drug prices for millions of Medicare beneficiaries.
Medicaid Fact Sheet – June 2023
Medicaid is a social safety net program that provides health coverage for pregnant women, children, the disabled and seniors with low-incomes.
