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This Older Americans Month, Let's Recommit to America's Seniors

Older Americans cannot fill their vital role in society without basic security—the peace of mind of knowing that they can pay their bills and have access to affordable health care and prescription drugs.
Max Richtman ·
People wear face masks near Madison Square Park on September 29, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images)
Activists hold a protest near the Manhattan apartment of billionaire and Republican financier David Koch on June 5, 2014 in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Koch's Americans for Prosperity Continues Its Assault on Medicaid During Covid

Don Wiener ·

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson addresses the media on the last day of legislative session at the Missouri State Capitol Building on May 17, 2019 in Jefferson City, Missouri.

'Why We Need Medicare for All': GOP Missouri Governor Rejects Ballot Mandate for Medicaid Expansion

Andrea Germanos, staff writer ·

Cara Stewart, a legal advocate opposing Medicaid work requirements, comforts Pauline Creech in Covington, Kentucky on January 15, 2018. Creech is concerned that, between her disability and her frequent doctor's appointments for cancer treatments, she won't be able to meet the work requirement of 80 hours per month. (Photo: Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Biden Urged to Withdraw All Medicaid Work Requirements Approved by Trump

Kenny Stancil, staff writer ·

Applause as Biden Plans to Rescind Medicaid Work Requirements, Targeting One of Most 'Cruel' Policies of Trump Era

Jake Johnson, staff writer ·

The most comprehensive and economically efficient solution for the abuses of the for-profit system and safety net programs is, of course, expanded Medicare-For-All.(Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

A Public Option Won’t Save Us. The Sick and Disabled Need Medicare-for-All

Medicare and Medicaid are rife with complicated formulas for exclusions, exceptions, and limitations. The cruelty that is imposed by the constraints of these programs cannot be overstated.

Maggie Mills ·

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) delivers an address on threats to American democracy at George Washington University on September 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. Sanders cited "the unprecedented and dangerous moment we are in right now" given U.S. President Donald Trump's "unique threats to our democracy." (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

'The Real Looting in America Is the Walton Family': GAO Report Details How Taxpayers Subsidize Cruel Low Wages of Corporate Giants

"I say to the Walton family: Get off welfare," declared Sen. Bernie Sanders in response to the government study he commissioned. "Pay your workers a living wage—at least $15 an hour."

Jon Queally, staff writer ·

A New Nonviolent Medicaid Army Is on the March

Led by the poor and dispossessed, this movement is bringing the demand for healthcare rights to corporate profiteers, state houses, prisons, and police stations.

Rev Dr Liz Theoharis ·

Covid-19 'Has Not Left Rural America': Healthcare Advocates Urge Congress to Save Small Hospitals as Pandemic Loans Come Due

"Not being reimbursed by Medicare would be crippling—akin to a household losing nearly half its income."

Lisa Newcomb, staff writer ·

People of Missouri Accomplish What Its GOP Lawmakers Refused to Do for Nearly 10 Years: Approve Medicaid Expansion

Called 'victory for health care,' ballot initiative succeeds where legislative efforts were long thwarted by Republican Party.

Lisa Newcomb, staff writer ·

It doesn’t raise SNAP benefit levels even though 26 million adults reported that their households, which include millions of children, often or sometimes didn’t have enough to eat in the last seven days, according to Census data from early July. (Photo: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

Counting the Many Ways the GOP Senate Covid-19 Relief Plan Would Fail Struggling Families and the Economy

The Senate Republican proposal fails to come close to meeting the scale and nature of the challenges we face.

Robert Greenstein ·

Ocasio-Cortez, NY State Progressives Call on Cuomo to Pass Billionaires' Tax to Support Immigrants Left Out of Covid-19 Relief

"For so long we've been bailing out corporations. Covid has shown us that the most vulnerable people in our community, they too deserve to be bailed out."

Julia Conley, staff writer ·

Pro-choice activists supporting legal access to abortion protest during a demonstration outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., March 4, 2020. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

'Enough Is Enough': 44 Groups Slam House Democrats for Including Hyde Amendment in Spending Bill

"It is long past time for our elected officials to put an end to abortion coverage bans once and for all, so no one is denied abortion care because of how much money they make or how they get their health insurance."

Jessica Corbett, staff writer ·

'The People Have Spoken': Thwarting GOP Push for Cuts, Oklahoma Voters Approve Medicaid Expansion

"Voters are tired of politicians ignoring the problem or worse, trying to take their healthcare away, and they're rejecting that approach in even the deepest of red states."

Jake Johnson, staff writer ·

'A Travesty': Trump Restricting Covid-19 Relief Funds From Hospitals Serving Nation's Poorest

"Trump is using hospital bailout fund money to disproportionately help high revenue hospitals, and leave safety-net systems in the lurch."

Jake Johnson, staff writer ·