Big news: The Social Security Administration just announced that the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security benefits will be 2.5%. That means that people receiving Social...
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Kamala Harris announces plan to expand Medicare to cover...
Today, Kamala Harris announced her plan to expand Medicare to cover long-term care at home. This would be life-changing for older adults, people with disabilities, and those who love them. This plan...
Senate Budget Committee holds hearing on Social Security...
[Excerpts from the testimony of Nancy Altman and Alex Lawson before the US Senate Budget Committee, June 9, 2022. respectively President and Executive Director, Social Security Works] “Thank...
Senator Manchin must support lower drug prices in Build Back...
On November 19th, the House passed the Build Back Better Act. Among the bill’s most popular provisions are several steps towards lowering prescription drug prices. Now, the bill goes to the Senate...
Blame Donald Trump for the nursing home Covid-19 crisis
The very first COVID-19 outbreak in the US took place in a Kirkland, Washington nursing home more than four months ago, at the end of February. At least 37 people died. That first outbreak should...
Coronavirus: How many more nursing home residents will die...
Not only has the US not been able to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, it has allowed COVID-19 to kill tens of thousands of vulnerable older adults and people with disabilities living in...
Let’s have a prescription drug public option
also, by Stephanie Taylor, originally published in The American Prospect. Kara Eastman, the Democratic nominee in Nebraska’s Second Congressional District, tells a story while campaigning about...
Social Security Trustees report confirms Social Security’s...
Thanks to Social Security, when it comes to our retirement security, or a disability, or the loss of a loved one, we’re not on our own. We’re all in it together. Last week’s Social Security...
U.S. army poised to give Sanofi exclusive license to vaccine...
The U.S. Army has developed two patents for a Zika vaccine. Now, the Army is poised to give Sanofi, a large vaccine maker, an exclusive license to these vaccine patents with no price restrictions. If...
Senate bill would deliver lower drug prices
It is unacceptable that people in the U.S. are going without needed medicines because they can’t afford them. On March 28, Senator Al Franken, along with Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown, Amy...