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• 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 father was experien...Read more >

• The Deep Divide: State Borders Create Medicaid Haves And Have-Nots

  October 03, 2019: By Laura Ungar, Kaiser Health News A few years ago, Patricia Powers briefly thought about moving from her home in St. Louis County, Mo., across the river into Illinois ― for Medicaid. “You ask yourself: Where do you go? What do you do?” Aft...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 year, he expected to...Read more >

• KHN – A Squeaker In The House Becomes Headache For The Senate: 5 Things To Watch

  May 05, 2017: By Julie Rovner, May 4, 2017 Kaiser Health News is a national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. After weeks of will-they-or-won’t-they tensions, the House managed to pass its GOP rep...Read more >

• Ken Pease About the Importance of Medicare

  February 10, 2017: [video width="640" height="360" mp4="http://retiredamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Ken-Pease-Video.mp4"][/video] The U.S. Senate confirmed Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), on Friday despite ...Read more >

• Retirees Deliver “Hands Off Medicare” Petitions

  January 26, 2017: Metro East- On Wednesday, the Steelworker Organization of Active Retirees delivered petitions to the offices of Congressmen Rodney Davis, Congressman John Shimkus and Congressman Mike Bost. Retiree leader Dennis Barker said they delivered a cl...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 >

• IARA Statement on the Laquan McDonald Shooting

  April 08, 2016:   The Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans Executive Board has released the following statement The Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans condemns all forms of racism as immoral, unjust, divisive and dangerous.  As advocates for ret...Read more >

• Strengthening Medicare Without Shifting Costs to Beneficiaries

  April 06, 2016: When it comes to strengthening Medicare, it is important to avoid changes that shift additional costs to seniors. The Alliance recently submitted comments for the record to the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee regarding this...Read more >

• Strengthening Medicare Without Shifting Costs to Beneficiaries

  April 06, 2016: When it comes to strengthening Medicare, it is important to avoid changes that shift additional costs to seniors. The Alliance recently submitted comments for the record to the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee regarding this...Read more >