Affordable Care Act

• KFF Health News – Sticker Shock: Obamacare Customers Confront Premium Spikes as Congress Dithers

  December 12, 2025: We’ve been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of the Affordable Care Act. But this time there’s an extra complication. Though it’s the middle of open enrollment, lawmakers are still debating whether...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump’s Idea for Health Accounts Has Been Tried. Millions of Patients Have Ended Up in Debt.

  December 09, 2025: Sarah Monroe once had a relatively comfortable middle-class life. She and her family lived in a neatly landscaped neighborhood near Cleveland. They had a six-figure income and health insurance. Then, four years ago, when Monroe was pregnant with t...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Health Savings Accounts, Backed by GOP, Cover Fancy Saunas but Not Insurance Premiums

  December 05, 2025: With the tax-free money in a health savings account, a person can pay for eyeglasses or medical exams, as well as a $1,700 baby bassinet or a $300 online parenting workshop. Those same dollars can’t be used, though, to pay for most baby formulas...Read more >

• Health Care Costs Surge As ACA Open Enrollment Begins

  November 07, 2025: Americans shopping for Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace insurance plans during open enrollment – which began this Saturday – are experiencing confusion and dramatically more expensive premiums. This includes five million older Americans betw...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Shutdown Halts Some Health Services as Political Risks Test Parties’ Resolve

  October 01, 2025: Threats of a federal government shutdown have gone from being an October surprise to a recurring theme. This time around, though, the stakes are higher. Federal funding ran out at midnight on Oct. 1, after Congress failed to pass even a stopgap bu...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Team Trump’s Answer to Ballooning Obamacare Premiums: Less Generous Coverage

  September 17, 2025: Trump administration officials, looking at the possible impact of large insurance premium increases for millions of next year’s Obamacare customers, want more people to consider plans with less generous benefits and high deductibles. The agency ...Read more >

• Kaiser Health News: Numbers Don’t Lie. Biden Kept His Promise on Improving Obamacare.

  January 23, 2023: Promise: “I’ll not only restore Obamacare; I’ll build on it.” In a speech on Nov. 2, 2020, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden promised, “I’ll not only restore Obamacare; I’ll build on it.” Two years and counting since then...Read more >

• Retirees Celebrate

  December 24, 2019: TARA HOUSTON MEMBERS CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS TARA Houston members   Annia Bradford, Alice Malvors and Paula Cooper enjoyed fun times  at the  annual Christmas Extravaganza for Seniors hosted by State Representative Jarvis  Johnson.   Me...Read more >

• Today a Victory, Tomorrow a Challenge!

  September 30, 2017: Dallas retirees and supporters will celebrate our major victory over Trumpcare at 12:30 PM Wednesday, October 4, at 334 Centre in Oak Cliff. [caption id="attachment_2255" align="alignnone" width="700"] We rallied at Senator Cornyn's office on Sept...Read more >

• Super Seniors Fight Back!

  September 20, 2017: Leaders of the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans are on the battlefronts everywhere in Texas. [caption id="attachment_2251" align="aligncenter" width="474"] vector illustration of a flying senior super heroine with cape[/caption] The Board Rep...Read more >