Health Care

• Dallas Adds to Texas Success with Medicare Celebrations

  July 30, 2015: By the time Dallas started its Medicare celebration on July 30, there were at least 128 other events taking place or scheduled nationwide. At least five of them were in Texas! Dallasites gathered at the Alliance/AFT Educators' Hall in the Oak Clif...Read more >

• 120 Medicare Celebrations Underway!

  July 27, 2015: As of last count, over 120 events are underway in the United States for the 50th Anniversary of Medicare, July 30. Texas had a fine one in Hurst and a great one in Austin. Two more are coming up: Celebrate, Defend, and Expand Medicare/ Medicaid in D...Read more >

• Dallas Medicare/Medicaid Action is Next

  July 25, 2015: Celebrate, Defend, and Expand Medicare/ Medicaid! 12:30 PM July 30, 50th Anniversary of Medicare signing 334 Centre (At Bishop) Dallas, Texas 75208 Mayor Pro Tem Monica Alonzo will lead a program of information and music leading to a fi...Read more >

• Celebrate, Defend, Extend Medicare/Medicaid!

  July 20, 2015: Retiree leader Mary Holomek invites everyone who supports the right to retire to a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Medicare/Medicaid. Come to 98 W Hurst Blvd in Hurst at 11AM on Thursday, July 23. The building is a UAW hall just a few blocks w...Read more >

• Medicare Celebrations Coming Up

  July 08, 2015: Texas Alliance members are at the National Alliance for Retired Americans Legislative Conference in Washington DC July 7-10. We heard from Max Fine, who began working on Medicare under President Johnson in 1962. Johnson credited us, our predecessor o...Read more >

• Will Medicare be Privatized?

  December 23, 2014: Congressman Marc Veasey held a "Labor Breakfast" at Lupe's Mexican Grill in Arlington on December 19. In his comments and responses to questions, it is apparent that Veasey is still the best thing to happen to North Texas retirees in many years. Mark...Read more >

• Ask Leah About Obama Care!

  August 18, 2014: During the Social Security celebration in Grand Prairie on August 14, Leah Witherspoon issued a strong "thank you" to Congressman Marc Veasey for supporting the Affordable Care Act. Here's a letter from Leah explaining her experience: "Gene you aske...Read more >

• Retirees Don’t Shut Up and Take It

  November 17, 2013: Brother Morris Fried is pictured at left with his good friend and fellow activist, Zen Biasco Does anybody still think that retirees should just shut up and take whatever gets handed out? They ought to check with Brother Morris Fried, an activist wi...Read more >

• Texas Retirees Get Love from President Obama

  November 10, 2013: If you saw President Obama speaking about health care in Dallas on Tuesday, of if you saw a video or televised account, you also saw some of the greatest activist the Texas retiree movement ever knew! Tom Berry, Susan Duarte, and George Nolan were st...Read more >

• Texas Is Doing OK

  November 10, 2013: Last May 7th, Judy Bryant and I were at a national leadership conference of the Alliance for Retired Americans in Washington DC. They asked me to write a letter "to myself" to be opened in November. It was supposed to state some of my goals for the T...Read more >