White House Budget: Seniors, Retired Veterans, and the Disabled Will Pay Down Our Nation’s Debt
The White House provided reporters an early look at President Obama's 2014 budget and the news for seniors is not good.
When is a Medicare Cut Not a Cut? When You’re One of the Nation’s Biggest Lobbyists: Health Insurance Companies
The news back in February that private insurers in Medicare would receive a 2.2% rate cut in 2014 sent their lobbyists
GOP Budget Plan Released Today’Seniors Say Three Strikes You’re OUT
Today's release of the GOP/Ryan budget reminds us of the famous line, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing
America’s Wealth Divide Continues: Cutting Social Security & Medicare Will Make it Even Worse
It's easy in this era of Washington deficit mania to focus solely on the numbers on a budget spreadsheet while losing sight
National Advocates Join Forces to Urge Equal Access to Social Security Benefits
We were proud today to release a new report, co-authored with the Human Rights Campaign detailing how current law leaves America's same
Bitter Pill – A Time Magazine Article Every Senior in Medicare Should Read
Time Magazine's cover story this week is an incredible read and one we highly recommend. Steven Brill's “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills
Economic Recovery is Good for Americans – Bad for Anti-Social Security & Medicare Lobbyists’ Crisis Strategy
Kudos to Nancy Cook at the National Journal for looking beyond the news release headlines and doom-and-gloom sound bites offered by the
Here They Go Again: The Latest Bowles Simpson Proposal tells Seniors “Pay More and Get Less”
While touted as a “new” plan by the mainstream media, the latest Bowles/Simpson (BS) deficit reduction proposal is really just more of
Social Security & Medicare: So Much More than Numbers on a Spreadsheet
The National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare is commemorating Black History Month with blog posts from a number of the
Parsing the State of the Union – Plans for Social Security & Medicare
There was a lot to like about yesterday's State of the Union address. Here are a few highlights: President Barack Obama