Medicare

• Don’t Become a Victim of Medicare Card Fraud

  June 05, 2017: From the Pierce County Human Services: Don’t Become a Victim of Medicare Card Fraud Medicare will begin sending beneficiaries new cards in 2018. It won’t have your Social Security Number on it. It will contain your brand-new Medicare Beneficia...Read more >

• GOP’s Latest Health Care Plan Takes Aim at Americans with Pre-existing Conditions While Protecting Members of Congress and Staff

  April 26, 2017: Still Contains the Unsavory Parts of the Previous Attempt at “Reform” The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, in response to media reports on the House Republicans' latest...Read more >

• GOP’s Latest Health Care Plan Takes Aim at Americans with Pre-existing Conditions While Protecting Members of Congress and Staff

  April 26, 2017: Still Contains the Unsavory Parts of the Previous Attempt at “Reform” The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, in response to media reports on the House Republicans' latest...Read more >

• Health Care Advocates: TAKE ACTION – GOP Bill is Back!

  April 21, 2017: An amendment to the American Health Care Act (AHCA) surfaced in DC as an alleged deal to bridge the gap between the Republican party’s more moderate members, who are concerned about weakening benefits and striping coverage from their constituents...Read more >

• Ken Pease About the Importance of Medicare

  February 10, 2017: Alliance member Ken Pease from Fairfax, Virginia, joined senators and other seniors in stating his concerns about Price’s nomination at a Facebook Live event on Capitol Hill. Mr Pease was joined by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, as well as Debbie...Read more >

• Join in the White House National Call-In Day!

  January 19, 2017: As a candidate, Donald Trump tweeted: “I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid.” It’s up to us to make sure he keeps this pledge. That's why on Monday, Ja...Read more >

• New Bill Seeks to Improve Medicare Coverage

  September 24, 2016: By Casey Schwarz from the September 22, 2016 Medicare Watch Congress took steps this week to improve Medicare coverage and enrollment rules by introducing the “The Medicare Affordability and Enrollment Act of 2016.” If passed, the bill wo...Read more >

• KHN: Study Finds Benefits When Seniors Call Shots To Help Them

  September 08, 2016: By: Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News a national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. A federally funded project that researchers say has potential to promote aging in place began by asking ...Read more >

• Protect SHIBA Funding

  July 21, 2016: Did you know that our state may have been the first one to offer free, unbiased, one on one counseling on Medicare? That’s what I learned from Carolyn Smith, the Field Supervisor for the SHIBA program administered under the Office of the Insurance ...Read more >

• Now is the time to expand Medicare

  July 20, 2016: The following article, published in the Washington Public Employees Council Summer 2016 newsletter, was written by their Executive Director Maria Britton Sipe, an Executive Board member of WSARA-EF. The time is now to move federal legislation to e...Read more >