Our Issues
Medicare
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7 Tips on How Best to Use Medicare
June 14, 2021: How to get the care you need at the lowest cost There's no getting around it. Medicare is a complicated program and every decision you make will have consequences – for your health and your wallet. To help you get the most out Read More >
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KHN: Under New Cost-Cutting Medicare Rule, Same Surgery, Same Place, Different Bill
March 29, 2021: A cost-saving change in Medicare launched in the final days of the Trump administration will cut payments to hospitals for some surgical procedures while potentially raising costs and confusion for patients. For years, the Read More >
Medicaid
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KHN: Biden Seeks $400 Billion to Buttress Long-Term Care. A Look at What’s at Stake.
April 12, 2021: There’s widespread agreement that it’s important to help older adults and people with disabilities remain independent as long as possible. But are we prepared to do what’s necessary, as a nation, to make this possible? Th Read More >
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KHN: Covid Cases Plummet 83% Among Nursing Home Staffers Despite Vaccine Hesitancy
March 15, 2021: Joan Phillips, a certified nursing assistant in a Florida nursing home, loved her job but dreaded the danger of going to work in the pandemic. When vaccines became available in December, she jumped at the chance to 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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2021 NYS Legislative Session Happenings and Determining NYSARA Legislative Priorities for 2022
June 14, 2021: In a year where COVID 19 was a major thrust of both the budget and the legislative session after budget considerations were addressed, the NYS legislature actively made strides on Senior issues and one issue that has Read More >
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New York City Actions on Age Discrimination NYSARA to Use as Guideline for State Actions
December 03, 2020: Bobbie Sackman, Workplace Discrimination Coordinator for the NYC Chapter of NYSARA, is pleased to report two groundbreaking steps taken in 2020 by NYC government to address age discrimination in the workplace: In July, 2020, th Read More >
Prescription Drugs
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Hearing Exposes Greed of Drug Corporation AbbVie
May 24, 2021: According to a study released on May 18 by the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee, the pharmaceutical corporation AbbVie has raised prices 470% in the United States for its widely used drugs Humira and Imbruvica over the pa Read More >
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KHN: As Drug Prices Keep Rising, State Lawmakers Propose Tough New Bills to Curb Them
February 16, 2021: Fed up with a lack of federal action to lower prescription drug costs, state legislators around the country are pushing bills to penalize drugmakers for unjustified price hikes and to cap payment at much-lower Canadian levels. Read More >
Pensions
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77 Percent of Americans Support Pensions for All Workers, According to New Research from the National Institute on Retirement Security Americans See Pensions as Important Tool to Recruit & Retain State and Local Public Employees
March 29, 2021: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 17, 2021 – A new national survey finds that 77 percent of Americans agree that all workers, not just those working for state and local government, should have a pension. And ev Read More >
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Study Finds Public Pensions Power the Economy
January 07, 2019: Public pension funds contributed a net $137.3 billion to state and local government coffers during 2016, underscoring their power to strengthen the U.S. economy, according to an analysis by the National Conference on Public Empl Read More >