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- Feb 5, 2010 Friday 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. more...
- Jan 29, 2010 Friday 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. more...
- Jan 22, 2010 Friday 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... more...
- Jan 15, 2010 Friday 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... more...
- Jan 8, 2010 Friday 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. more...
- Dec 18, 2009 Friday 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... more...
- Dec 11, 2009 Friday 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... more...
- Dec 4, 2009 Friday Alert Senate Takes Center Stage in Health Care Reform Effort The U.S. Senate moved forward on landmark health care legislation this week. more...
- Nov 20, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Nov 13, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Nov 6, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Oct 30, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Oct 27, 2009 New Alliance Blog!
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- Oct 23, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Oct 16, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Oct 9, 2009 Friday 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... more...
- Oct 2, 2009 Friday 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). more...
- Oct 2, 2009 CT Seniors Applaud AG Blumenthal Efforts to Stop Deceptive Mailings on Health Reform Action in Wake of Humana "Scare Tactics" The following statement was issued by Cal Bunnell, President of the Connecticut Alliance for Retired Americans, in response to today's action by state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal more...
- Sep 25, 2009 September 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. more...
- Sep 23, 2009 Our Chance to Close the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Doughnut Hole! Members of the Senate Finance Committee are meeting now to vote on health insurance reform legislation. Senators Bill Nelson and Jay Rockefeller will offer an amendment that will close the doughnut hole once and for all! more...
- Sep 18, 2009 September 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... more...
- Sep 11, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Sep 4, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Aug 28, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Aug 21, 2009 Friday 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... more...
- Aug 14, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Aug 10, 2009 Legislative Agenda 2009-2010 Older Americans in 2009 face challenges on several fronts. Health care costs continue to rise dramatically and outpace general inflation. Seniors increasingly use more of their income for out of pocket health care costs. In addition, the economic downturn, which began in 2008, threatens seniors'... more1
- Aug 7, 2009 Friday 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... more...
- Jul 31, 2009 Friday Alert Alliance Commemorates Medicare's 44th Birthday with Events Across the Country Forty-four years ago yesterday, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law. To mark the birthday, members of the Alliance held more than 30 grassroots events around the country on Thursday, honoring... more...
- Jul 24, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Jul 17, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Jul 10, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Jul 3, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Jun 26, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Jun 22, 2009 Friday Alert Retirees Lobby Congress on Health Care Reform Nearly 550 retirees attended the Alliance's annual legislative conference last week. more...
- Jun 12, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- Jun 5, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- May 29, 2009 Friday 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. more...
- May 22, 2009 Friday 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." more...
- May 15, 2009 Friday Alert Coyle Says Not to Overreact to Trustees Reports The financial health of Social Security and Medicare has worsened because of the severe recession, according to Trustees Reports released on Tuesday. However, Alliance leaders cautioned the public not to panic. more...
- May 8, 2009 Friday Alert Alliance's 2008 Voting Record Shows Congress is Becoming More Pro-Senior On Monday, the Alliance released a new report detailing the voting record of every U.S. Senator and Representative on key issues affecting current and future retirees. more...
- May 4, 2009 2008 Voting Record This past year saw dramatic change come to Washington. Key retiree issues included whether to privatize Social Security, continue the wasteful subsidies under Medicare Advantage, and allow the continuance of the confusing Medicare Part D prescription drug program without the ability to... more...
- May 1, 2009 Friday Alert Retirees' Stake in Health Care Reform to be the Theme for Older Americans Month Retirees have a stake in health care reform, and May - Older Americans Month - is when seniors will be driving that point home! more...
- Apr 24, 2009 Friday Alert Medicare Advantage Plans Face Changes in 2010 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently established stricter rules for private insurance companies, effectively cutting subsidies to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans by up to 5%. more...
- Apr 17, 2009 Friday Alert Obama Addresses Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security in Economic Speech In a speech at Georgetown University on Tuesday, President Obama assessed economic recovery efforts, linking health care costs to broader economic problems and speaking of the need for health care reform to reign in the... more...
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