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• Long Island Chapter hosts forum on healthcare and the Constitutional Convention

  May 01, 2017: The Long Island Chapter of NYSARA held a two hour forum on health care and the NYS Constitutional Convention on Friday April 28, 2017. The fifty (50) activists in attendance were presented with the reasons for and the practicalities of a single payer...Read more >

• National Call-in Day to Stop the American Health Care Act

  April 14, 2017: Our two NYS Senators (Schumer and Gillibrand) are firmly opposed to the AHCA.  However, Senators have said that people seem not to be concerned and have stopped calling.  We CANNOT let them think that.  Also, have your friends and family and acqua...Read more >

• NYSARA Appoints New Executive Director

  April 02, 2017: On the recommendation of NYSARA President Barry Kaufmann and the action of the NYSARA Board of Directors, Stephen Madarasz has been appointed the NYS Alliance for Retired Americans new Executive Director as of April 1st. He replaces former Execut...Read more >

• Positions on the AHCA (Trump/Ryancare) by our Congressional Representatives

  March 26, 2017: All 18 Democratic Congresspersons committed to voting against How our nine Republican Congressional Representatives stood on the AHCA (Trumpcare) Supported the Bill (NY Times 3/24/2017) Lee Zeldin - 1st Congressional District John Faso - 19...Read more >

• Thank You NYSARA Activists: Your Efforts paid dividends in Preventing Trump/Ryancare’s passage

  March 26, 2017: 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 ri...Read more >

• What the Republican talking points REALLY mean

  March 12, 2017:   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 pr...Read more >

• If the Affordable Care Act is repealed some NYS Congressional seats could flip or be impacted

  March 05, 2017: 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districts, currently represented by Republicans, in the United States that could "flip" if the Affordable Care Act is repealed.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 rep...Read more >

• Southern tier NYSARA activists speak truth to power at a rally in front of Representative Reed’s Corning office

  February 23, 2017: 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 S...Read more >

• Joint NYC Chapter of NYSARA and Council of Municipal Retiree Organizations (COMRO) Meeting February 15th

  February 17, 2017: 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 t...Read more >

• Productive Meeting Held with Representative Peter King

  February 12, 2017: 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 annualiz...Read more >