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• KFF Health News: The Burden of Getting Medical Care Can Exhaust Older Patients

  March 27, 2024: Susanne Gilliam, 67, was walking down her driveway to get the mail in January when she slipped and fell on a patch of black ice. Pain shot through her left knee and ankle. After summoning her husband on her phone, with difficulty she made it back ...Read more >

• Primary Voting Is Underway

  February 05, 2024: Complete lists of union-endorsed Texas candidates are available on-line. Central Labor Councils are completing their local endorsements before in-person early voting begins February 20. Those who signed up early for vote-by-mail already have their ba...Read more >

• KFF Health News: America’s Health System Isn’t Ready for the Surge of Seniors With Disabilities

  January 17, 2024: The number of older adults with disabilities — difficulty with walking, seeing, hearing, memory, cognition, or performing daily tasks such as bathing or using the bathroom — will soar in the decades ahead, as baby boomers enter their 70s, 80s, an...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Deep Flaws in FDA Oversight of Medical Devices, and Patient Harm, Exposed in Lawsuits and Records

  December 21, 2023: Living with diabetes, Carlton “PeeWee” Gautney Jr. relied on a digital device about the size of a deck of playing cards to pump insulin into his bloodstream. The pump, manufactured by device maker Medtronic, connected plastic tubing to an insu...Read more >

• Retiree Benefits Misunderstood and Maligned

  November 22, 2023: The Washington Post ran an editorial, “Why we’re borrowing to fund the elderly while neglecting everyone else.” The writer presumes to know something about Social Security, federal budgets, and simple economics. She fails on all counts. She ...Read more >

• 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 their cost is so crushi...Read more >

• Help TARA’s Fund and Membership Drive

  November 20, 2023: TARA is one of the most important organizations in Texas. Our organized  retiree activists strengthen other organizations and the entire progressive political effort. As we are chartered under section 501c4 of the tax code, we can and do endorse and...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Save Billions or Stick With Humira? Drug Brokers Steer Americans to the Costly Choice

  September 21, 2023: Tennessee last year spent $48 million on a single drug, Humira — about $62,000 for each of the 775 patients who were covered by its employee health insurance program and receiving the treatment. So when nine Humira knockoffs, known as biosimilars, ...Read more >

• Austin Discusses Age Discrimination

  July 19, 2023: The Austin Chapter had an expert on age discrimination for their July 20, 2023 meeting. UNDERSTANDING AGE DISCRIMINATION Equal Employment Opportunity Commission The EEOC has jurisdiction over federal and private sector discrimination claim...Read more >

• TARA In Legal Fight for Voting Rights

  June 21, 2023: The long legal fight for Texas retiree voting rights, like the wheels of justice, grinds slowly on. At a short on-line conference with lawyers on June 21, 2023, Organizer Judy Bryant and President Gene Lantz were told that we may finally go to trial ...Read more >