On Friday March 24, 2017 the American Health Care Act died a very unnatural death. The original bill that threatened to have up to 24 million Americans lose coverage, to raise prices for seniors, to give a $525 billion dollar tax break to the very richest Americans, to defund pla... Read more
Rep. John Faso, R-Kinderhook, was among 19 members of the House Budget Committee to vote in favor of reporting the GOP’s American Health Care Act out of committee on Thursday. It now heads to the Rules Committee. The vote was 19-17. Had one additional member voted no, it wou... Read more
They say: We want to allow the sale of health insurance across state lines. The Reality: Selling insurance across state lines will let insurance companies move to the states with the weakest regulations, which could destroy coverage protections and threaten other p... Read more
Join Ryan Delgado, Political Director for the NYS AFL-CIO and Barry Kaufmann, President of the 490,000 member New York State Alliance for Retired Americans for an informational session on exactly what is at stake for New Yorkers if a Constitutional Convention is convened. Also,... Read more
In an article in the Daily Kos on February 27, 2017 they identified 51 Congressional districts, currently represented by Republicans, in the United States that could "flip" if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. Although the premise that the ACA repeal itself determines the elec... Read more
On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 in front of Congressman Reed's Corning office a group of activists including many NYSARA members rallied against the repeal of the ACA, diminishing of Medicare, block granting of Medicaid and diminishment of Social Security. This rally followed... Read more
ACA Day of Action – Saturday, February 25th is the National Day of Action to oppose the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. As you may know, Sen. Bernie Sanders has asked Americans to organize actions in every congressional district, and he has asked the Alliance members to a... Read more
On Wednesday February 15th the first ever joint meeting of the NYC Chapter of NYSARA and Council of Municipal Retiree Organizations (COMRO) was held at UFT headquarters. The major topic of discussion was the status of the federal deliberations on the Affordable Care Act, the pr... Read more
On Friday February 10, 2017 NYSARA President Barry Kaufmann and Long Island Chapter of NYSARA President Stanley Bergman met with Congressman Peter King. (R/CD #2) NYSARA's positions on the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, Block granting or annualizing of Medicaid, voucherizing ... Read more