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• Myths and Facts about the NY Health Act: Guaranteed Health Care for ALL New Yorkers

  October 22, 2018: MYTH: The NY Health Act will end Medicare as we know it. FACT: The NY Health Act will greatly improve benefits for Medicare beneficiaries by covering vision, dental, hearing, and long-term care, while lowering cost by getting rid of copays, dedu...Read more >

• NYSARA Endorses Letitia ‘Tish” James for NYS Attorney General and Tom DiNapoli for NYS Comptroller

  October 10, 2018:   At their October 3rd Conference Call Board meeting the NYSARA Board of Directors unanimously endorsed Letitia "Tish" James for NYS Attorney General and Incumbent Thomas DiNapoli for NYS Comptroller. Letitia James is the Public Advocate f...Read more >

• Capital District Chapter Hosts 83rd Birthday Celebration of Social Security Featuring a discussion of the program by Congressman Tonko

  August 19, 2018: NYSARA Executive Director Stephen Madarasz, Capital Region Chapter President Karen Wojcik-Hess, Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY20 CD), Linda Mertz of the University at Albany School of Public Welfare, and NYSARA activist Pat Lavin. Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY...Read more >

• NYC Chapter of NYSARA Celebration of Social Security’s 83rd

  August 19, 2018: Save Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid! That was the mantra at a recent meeting held at UFT headquarters on Thursday, August 9, 2018 and organized   by some of NYSARA's allies including Metro NY Healthcare for all, the UFT and Statewide Seni...Read more >

• In Honor of Social Security’s 83rd Birthday The Truth About Social Security Its Critics Refuse to Acknowledge

  August 19, 2018:   President Franklin Roosevelt signed our Social Security system into law eighty-three years ago today, on August 14, 1935. It has stood the test of time. Social Security protects us against the economic consequences of risks to which all ...Read more >

• Republican Study Committee Draft Budget Bad For Senior’s

  July 26, 2018: As of June 15, 2018, the House Budget Committee has not produced a budget for FY 2019. However, the 150-member strong Republican Study Committee (RSC) did draft a budget, and many of their proposals or similar proposals have been included in previous...Read more >

• 2017 Congressional Voting Records for NYS

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• Central New York Chapter of NYSARA Welcomes Comptroller Dinapoli and NYSARA Executive Director Madarasz to Meeting

  May 15, 2018: Meeting New York State Comptroller Tom Dinapoli was a special guest at the NYSARA Central New York chapter's monthly  meeting in Syracuse, offering perspective on the importance of improving retirement security for all New Yorkers, the st...Read more >

• NYSARA Biennial Election Convention 2018 Officers and Directors Elected/ ARA Executive Director Addresses Group

  April 25, 2018: The biennial election convention of the New York State Alliance for Retired Americans began on the night of April 18th with its Board of Directors meeting.  At this meeting retiring Board members Doug Matousek, Walter Dunn and Floyd Cameron were r...Read more >

• HEALTHCARE COMPANIES: THE LEAST DESERVING TAX-CUT WINNERS

  April 25, 2018:   Among corporations, few fare better under the new Republican tax law—while deserving it less—than big drug companies and health insurers. Both the pharmaceutical and health-insurance industries have grown rich and powerful over the year...Read more >