Medicare

• Fix Drug Prices

  December 29, 2016: [caption id="attachment_161" align="alignnone" width="300"] Assorted Medicine Pills in Caps ca. 2001[/caption] The high prices Americans pay for generic drugs may have been cooked up by pharmaceutical salespeople on golf courses, at a New Jersey s...Read more >

• Sign up to call Congress on January 4th and tell them Hands Off Medicare!

  December 29, 2016: It’s urgent. With Republicans in charge of Congress and the executive branch, retirees are in facing the most hostile political climate we’ve seen in a generation. We need all hands on deck. Make a commitment to call today.  ...Read more >

• COPE Regional Training Conferences

  July 26, 2016: This year's COPE conference is coming to you! Immediately following the Democratic National Convention, we are launching regional COPE training meetings in each Area Labor Federation jurisdiction to bring renewed focus to the four pillars of our poli...Read more >

• Strengthening Medicare Without Shifting Costs to Beneficiaries

  April 06, 2016: When it comes to strengthening Medicare, it is important to avoid changes that shift additional costs to seniors. The Alliance recently submitted comments for the record to the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee regarding this...Read more >

• Strengthening Medicare Without Shifting Costs to Beneficiaries

  April 06, 2016: When it comes to strengthening Medicare, it is important to avoid changes that shift additional costs to seniors. The Alliance recently submitted comments for the record to the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee regarding this...Read more >

• Kasich and Jeb Bush Mean Trouble for Seniors

  February 11, 2016: John Kasich and Jeb Bush mean trouble for seniors and retirees. The New Hampshire primary results are in, and the top four for the Republicans were businessman Donald Trump, Gov. John Kasich (Ohio), Sen. Ted Cruz (TX), and former Governor Jeb Bush (F...Read more >

• Silver Tsunami to Bring 25 Million More Medicare Beneficiaries by 2036

  January 27, 2016: [caption id="attachment_3359" align="alignnone" width="300"] Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator[/caption] The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that Medicare enrollment will grow by more than 30 percent over the next ten yea...Read more >

• 2016 Presidential Primary

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• End of Life: Medicare Will Cover Discussions

  December 08, 2015: A September 2015 Kaiser study showed that 89% of Americans surveyed support the idea that doctors should have end of life discussions with their patients. Further, 81% also believed that Medicare should cover those discussions. When Centers for Me...Read more >

• Republicans in U.S. House and Senate Plan Ways to Cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

  November 06, 2015: [caption id="attachment_912" align="alignleft" width="150"] Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, after a weekly policy luncheon. From left are, Sen. Roy Blunt...Read more >