Our Issues
Medicare
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KFF Health News: Biden Administration Bars Medical Debt From Credit Scores
January 08, 2025: The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit reports, enacting a major new consumer protection just days before President Joe Biden is set to leave o Read More >
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KFF Health News: Lack of Affordability Tops Older Americans’ List of Health Care Worries
July 11, 2024: What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care? The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay. “It’s on our minds a whole lot because of our age and because everything keeps Read More >
Medicaid
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KFF Health News: Extra Fees Drive Assisted Living Profits
November 21, 2023: Assisted living centers have become an appealing retirement option for hundreds of thousands of boomers who can no longer live independently, promising a cheerful alternative to the institutional feel of a nursing home. But the Read More >
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Apple, Bose and Others Pump Up the Volume on Hearing Aid Options, Filling Void Left by FDA
August 31, 2021: Spurred by decades of complaints about the high cost of hearing aids, Congress passed a law in 2017 to allow over-the-counter sales, with hopes it would boost competition and lower prices. Four years later, federal regulato Read More >
Social Security
Affordable Care Act
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Suit Challenging ACA Legally Suspect, But Threatens Loss of Coverage for Millions
January 20, 2020: A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will soon announce a decision in Texas v. United States, the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The appeals court heard oral arg Read More >
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Trump-Backed Texas Lawsuit Would Devastate New Yorkers
July 11, 2019: President Trump is trying to rip away our health care by going to court to eliminate the Affordable Care Act in its entirety. If the Trump lawsuit is successful, it will strip coverage from millions of Americans, raise premiums, e Read More >
NYS State Issues
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Preparing for the Pain off Possible Mid-Year Budget Cuts in New York State
April 07, 2025: Albany is moving through the familiar choreography of creating an annual state spending plan while it’s quite possible that whatever the leaders come up with will be blown to bits later in the year by federal Read More >
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NYSARA and the NYS Office for the Aging Survey on Services for Seniors 870 Surveys Now Completed
February 14, 2023: We asked you last week to take part in a survey on services for Seniors in New York. Thus far 870 people have taken part in the survey. For those of you that have NOT taken the survey we ask that you log on to and ta Read More >
Prescription Drugs
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KFF Health News: Biden Administration Bars Medical Debt From Credit Scores
January 08, 2025: The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit reports, enacting a major new consumer protection just days before President Joe Biden is set to leave o Read More >
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KFF Health News: Lack of Affordability Tops Older Americans’ List of Health Care Worries
July 11, 2024: What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care? The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay. “It’s on our minds a whole lot because of our age and because everything keeps Read More >
Pensions
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Pension Spending During Covid Pandemic Provided $1.3 Trillion to the Economy
January 11, 2023: Retirees who spent their public and private sector pension benefits in 2020 generated $1.3 trillion in total economic output, supporting nearly 6.8 million jobs across the nation, according to a report released Wedn Read More >
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Generational Views of Retirement in the United States
August 12, 2021: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has presented extraordinary health and economic challenges across the globe, triggering yet another deep economic crisis. While the availability of several vaccines in late 2020 has begun to all Read More >