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Retirees Applaud HHS Secretary Becerra’s Directive that CMS Reconsider 14% 2022 Medicare Premium Hike
January 10, 2022: Statement by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding reports that Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has ordered the Centers for Medicare and Read More >
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The Alliance Mourns Loss of Retiree Champion Senator Harry Reid
December 31, 2021: Members of the Alliance were saddened this week by the passing of former Majority Leader and long-time Nevada Senator Harry Reid, a lifelong champion for older Americans. “Retirees have lost one of the best friends they ever Read More >
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Postal Reform Act Awaits a Vote to Strengthen the Post Office
December 21, 2021: As postal workers are working diligently to deliver holiday packages on time, the American Postal Workers Union is focused on a key piece of legislation – the Postal Reform Act, H.R. 3076 in the House and S. 1720 in the Senate. Read More >
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House Oversight Committee: Drug Prices are “Unsustainable, Unjustifiable and Unfair”
December 13, 2021: The pharmaceutical industry relies on drug-pricing practices that are “unsustainable, unjustified and unfair,” according to findings from a nearly three-year investigation by the House Oversight Committee. The conclusions, Read More >
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President Biden Outlines the Ways “Build Back Better” will Lower Drug Prices
December 13, 2021: President Biden, citing the "outrageously expensive" cost of insulin and other prescription medications, called on Congress last week to pass his Build Back Better bill, which contains multiple provisions to lower drug prices. Read More >
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New Report Shows Drug Price Hikes for 7 Medicines Were “Unjustified” and Cost Billions
November 30, 2021: According to a new report from the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, prescription drug increases for seven out of 10 medications cost $1.7 billion last year. Researchers also determined that these seven price hikes were Read More >
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KHN: As Big Pharma and Hospitals Battle Over Drug Discounts, Patients Miss Out on Millions in Benefits
November 22, 2021: In early July, as the covid-19 pandemic slammed rural America, the president of a small Kansas hospital sat down on a Friday afternoon and wrote the president of the United States to plead for help. “I do not intend t Read More >
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House Passes Historic Build Back Act that Lowers Drug Prices, Funds Home Care and Hearing Aids
November 22, 2021: The House voted 220-213 to pass the Build Back Better Act, H.R. 5376, Friday morning, sending President Biden’s sweeping plan to invest in middle class families and expand long-awaited social programs to the U.S. Senate. The bil Read More >
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Retirees Applaud House Passage of Build Back Better Act that Lowers Drug Costs, Funds Home Care, Adds Guaranteed Hearing Benefit to Medicare
November 19, 2021: Statement by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding passage of President Biden’s Build Back Better Act, H.R. 5376, in the U.S. House: “The Alliance for Retired Americans applauds Read More >
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Public Opinion Is Unified on Lowering Drug Prices. Why Are Leaders Settling for Less?
November 18, 2021: Democrats and Republicans are crystal clear in polls that they want government to be allowed to negotiate down high drug prices. Americans pay nearly three times as much for drugs as patients in dozens of other countries. In the Read More >