Mar 5, 2010Friday Alert
$250 Payment to Social Security Recipients Voted Down By Senate
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.
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Feb 26, 2010Friday Alert
Response to President's Health Care Plan and Summit: Three Things You Can Do
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.
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Feb 19, 2010Friday Alert
President Establishes Debt Commission to Look at Social Security and Medicare
Yesterday, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order establishing a commission to tackle the federal debt.
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Feb 12, 2010Friday Alert
Insurance Premium Increase of 39% in California Adds to Health Reform Urgency
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.
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Feb 5, 2010Friday Alert
President's Budget Includes $250 Stimulus Payment for Social Security Recipients
President Obama's Fiscal Year 2011 budget proposes a $250 payment to Social Security recipients.
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Jan 29, 2010Friday Alert
President Obama Delivers State of the Union Address
During his State of the Union address on Wednesday, President Obama vocalized the critical need for a reduction in the federal deficit.
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Jan 22, 2010Friday Alert
Massachusetts' Election of Scott Brown to U.S. Senate Threatens Health Reform
The election in Massachusetts of Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday ended the Senate Democrats' supermajority in the chamber, and the first casualty of his victory could be the Democrats' health...
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Jan 15, 2010Friday Alert
Health Bill Moves Forward with Excise Tax Compromise
Yesterday, White House officials, leaders in Congress and labor unions reached agreement on a proposal to limit the excise tax on higher-cost health insurance plans - a sticking point that had been a major obstacle to merging the House and...
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Jan 8, 2010Friday Alert
Senate and House Iron Out The Differences in Their Health Reform Bills
Senate passage of its version of health reform legislation on Christmas Eve completed a historic year in Congress and in the nation's domestic policy debate.
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Dec 18, 2009Friday Alert
Health Reform Will Not Include Medicare Buy-in for Those 55-64
A week ago, a compromise Senate deal on health reform nixed a public insurance option and replaced it with provisions letting those 55 or older buy into Medicare and allowing nationwide nonprofit private plans overseen by the...
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Dec 11, 2009Friday Alert
Senate May Vote to Offer Medicare to Those 55 - 64
President Obama hailed a tentative health care agreement announced in the Senate on Tuesday night, saying that he would support it, and majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) sent the proposal to the Congressional Budget Office for cost analysis...
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Dec 4, 2009Friday Alert
Senate Takes Center Stage in Health Care Reform Effort
The U.S. Senate moved forward on landmark health care legislation this week.
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Nov 20, 2009Friday Alert
Reid Presents Health Care Bill That Cuts $130 Billion from the Federal Deficit Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) presented an $848 billion health-care overhaul package on Wednesday that would help Americans of all ages better afford to see a doctor and get a prescription filled.
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Nov 13, 2009Friday Alert
House Passes Historic Health Care Reform Bill
On Saturday, the U.S House voted to pass H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, a bill that will help retirees and all Americans with their access to quality health care.
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Nov 6, 2009Friday Alert
Alliance Formally Endorses House Health Care Bill
On Tuesday, the Alliance sent a letter supporting the Affordable Health Care for America Act, H.R. 3962, to all members of the U.S. House.
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Oct 30, 2009Friday Alert
Speaker Pelosi Unveils House Health Care Bill
The U.S. House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), unveiled an $894 billion health care package on Thursday that would provide insurance to up to 36 million people by offering subsidies to moderate-income Americans to buy insurance.
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Oct 23, 2009Friday Alert
Bill to Keep Doctors' Pay from Being Dramatically Slashed Fails
The Senate voted 47-53 against invoking cloture on a Medicare doctors' reimbursement bill on Wednesday, falling 13 votes short of stopping a filibuster.
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Oct 16, 2009Friday Alert
As Insurance Industry Continues Its Campaign of Lies...
Obama administration officials and Congressional Democrats fired back on Monday at a misleading insurance industry report that said premiums would climb sharply with the passage of comprehensive health legislation.
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Oct 9, 2009Friday Alert
CBO Says Senate Finance Committee Health Care Bill Would Reduce Deficit
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said on Thursday that the Finance Committee will vote this Tuesday on a 10-year, $829-billion proposal that would expand health coverage to 94% of eligible Americans while...
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Oct 2, 2009Friday Alert - October 2, 2009
Senate Panel Rejects "Public Option" on Health Bill
Members of the Senate Finance Committee this week defeated two efforts to add a "public option" to the health care bill drafted by committee chair Max Baucus (D-MT).
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Sep 25, 2009September 25, 2009 - Friday Alert
Senate Finance Committee Debates Baucus' Health Care Reform Bill
As they consider chairman Max Baucus' (D-MT) health proposal this week, Senate Finance Committee Republicans and Democrats are debating costs, subsidies and the future of Medicare.
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Sep 18, 2009September 18, 2009 Friday Alert
Baucus' Health Care Reform Bill Criticized by Senior Advocates On Wednesday, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), Chairman of the Finance Committee, brought out the committee's version of national health care reform - an $856 billion, 10-year measure that starts a bumpy journey through the Senate without...
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Sep 11, 2009Friday Alert
Obama Health Care Speech Clears the Air of Myths and Falsehoods
In a rare speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night, President Obama made an impassioned plea to provide health insurance for those currently without it.
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Sep 4, 2009Friday Alert
Obama to Address Joint Session of Congress on Health Care
President Obama plans to address a joint session of Congress this Wednesday night in an effort to rally support for health care legislation.
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Aug 28, 2009Friday Alert
Retirees Mourn the Loss of Senator Ted Kennedy
In a rare joint statement, Alliance President Barbara J. Easterling, Secretary-Treasurer Ruben Burks, and Executive Director Edward F. Coyle commented Wednesday on the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
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Aug 21, 2009Friday Alert
Florida Alliance's Delray Beach Health Care Forum Draws Worldwide Attention
Fourteen hundred activists, most of them in favor of health reform, gathered on Thursday in suburban Delray Beach, Florida for a health care forum with Democratic U.S. Reps. Robert Wexler (D-FL) and Alcee Hastings...
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Aug 14, 2009Friday Alert
Alliance Members Refute Lies and Myths at Town Halls
Although town hall meetings are intended for constituents of congressional members' districts, many attendees seem to have come from farther away.
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Aug 7, 2009Friday Alert
Alliance Calls for Civility at Town Halls When Discussing Health Insurance Reform
Members of the Alliance are calling for civil discourse during town hall meetings with Members of Congress this month, amidst stories of town halls across the country erupting into chaos during the health care...
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Jul 24, 2009Friday Alert
Alliance Plans Week of Action To Commemorate Medicare's 44th Birthday
The Alliance is planning a week of action on health care beginning on Monday, July 27 to commemorate the upcoming 44th birthday of Medicare on July 30.
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Jul 17, 2009Friday Alert
Retirees Praise Health Care Bills from U.S. House, Senate HELP Panel
Both the U.S. House and the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee released health care reform bills this week.
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Jul 10, 2009Friday Alert
U.S. House is Close to Unveiling Its Health Care Plan
The U.S. House is expected to release its health care reform plan on Monday.
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Jul 3, 2009Friday Alert
Senate Panel Questions Private Insurers' Credibility, Shows Need for a Public Plan As the public health plan option, adamantly opposed by insurers, is considered in the Senate, the Senate Commerce Committee released a report last week exposing greedy and dishonest acts by insurance companies.
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Jun 26, 2009Friday Alert
President Obama Says He is "Flexible" on Offering a Public Health Plan...
A New York Times poll released on Sunday showed that a remarkable 72% of Americans support a public health care plan.
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Jun 22, 2009Friday Alert
Retirees Lobby Congress on Health Care Reform Nearly 550 retirees attended the Alliance's annual legislative conference last week.
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Jun 12, 2009Friday Alert
Senate HELP Committee Releases Health Care Bill Containing a Public Plan
Democrats from the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) filed a 651-page health care reform bill on Tuesday.
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Jun 5, 2009Friday Alert
Senators Baucus, Kennedy Offer Different Visions for Health Care Reform
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the Senate Finance Committee have adopted different views on health care reform.
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May 29, 2009Friday Alert
Be Careful When the Insurance Industry Says It Would Like to Help!
According to the AFL-CIO blog, profits at ten of the country's largest publicly traded health insurance companies rose 428 percent from 2000 to 2007, while consumers paid more for less coverage.
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May 22, 2009Friday Alert
Senate Finance Committee Offers Options During Older Americans Month
May is Older Americans Month, and all month long Alliance members are focusing on the theme of "Retirees' Stake in Health Care Reform."
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