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• 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 Read More >

• KHN: Seniors Face Crushing Drug Costs as Congress Stalls on Capping Medicare Out-Of-Pockets

  January 07, 2021: Sharon Clark is able to get her life-sustaining cancer drug, Pomalyst — priced at more than $18,000 for a 28-day supply — only because of the generosity of patient assistance foundations. Clark, 57, a former insurance agent Read More >

• KHN: Federal Judge Rules Medicare Patients Can Challenge ‘Observation Care’ Status

  March 30, 2020: By Susan Jaffe Hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries who have been denied coverage for nursing home stays because their time in the hospital was changed from “inpatient” to “observation care” can now appeal to Read More >

• ‘Hobnobbing With Billionaires in Davos,’ Trump Admits—If Reelected—He Will Seek to Cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare

  January 23, 2020: "It'll be toward the end of the year," Trump said from Davos, Switzerland. "And at the right time, we will take a look at that. You know, that's actually the easiest of all things, if you look, cause it's such a big percentage." Read More >

• Medicare Fraudsters Now Tap Telemedicine In Medical Equipment Scams

  October 18, 2019: By Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health News  OCTOBER 9, 2019 (Hannah Norman/KHN illustration; Getty Images) Dean Ernest had been living in a nursing home about a year when his son, John, got a call last winter asking if his Read More >

• THINK BIG FOR THE TARA CONVENTION!

  December 15, 2017: Think Big! Think Even Bigger! If TARA activists are audacious, we can change senior voting patterns in Texas next year. Our biggest and most important state convention is set for 1-4 PM on January 19 in Austin. Activists arou Read More >

• Take Action on Tuesday!

  October 23, 2017: Demonstrate with Us! Protest at 11:45AM on October 24 Belo Garden Park, Across from the Federal Building 1014 Main Street, Dallas TX As we feared and fought against, Congress completed its approval of the Republican Read More >

• Seniors Sharpen Swords

  October 05, 2017: The best weapon against lies and trickery is facts, and the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans sharpens our facts at every meeting. [caption id="attachment_2260" align="aligncenter" width="639"] Dallas Chapter's October mee 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[/cap Read More >

• KHN – Analysis: As Seniors Get Sicker, They’re More Likely To Drop Medicare Advantage Plans

  July 06, 2017: By Fred Schulte Kaiser Health News is a national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. When Sol Shipotow enrolled in a new Medicare Advantage health plan earlier this Read More >