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• FLARA Recommendations for 2017 Legislative Session

  January 17, 2017: The Florida Alliance for Retired Americans (FLARA) recommendations for the 2017 Florida Legislature include a range of issues of concern to seniors. In addition, FLARA includes recommendations to help ensure that future generations do not face dimini...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 >

• FLARA Recommendations for 2015 Legislative Session

  March 24, 2016: January, 2015 The Florida Alliance for Retired Americans (FLARA) recommendations for the 2015 Florida Legislature include a range of issues of concern to seniors. In addition, FLARA strongly supports measures to ensure that future generations do not...Read more >

• Seniors and Veterans Demand a Vote on the SAVE Benefits Act

  March 09, 2016: [flagallery gid=3] Today Maryland/DC Alliance member Susan Taylor spoke at an event on Capitol Hill urging the Senate to vote on S. 2251, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's SAVE Benefits Act - providing seniors a one-time payment of $581. The amount is...Read more >

• Resolution on Ethics in Florida Government

  January 01, 2016: Florida Alliance for Retired Americans Public corruption is pervasive at all levels of government in Florida. This is according to a December 2010 report, "A Study of Public Corruption in Florida" by the 19th Statewide Grand Jury. According to the g...Read more >

• Resolution on Electronic Medical Records

  January 01, 2016: Florida Alliance for Retired Americans Electronic medical records, as part of a secure national network of health information that is accessible by patients and health care providers, will improve health care quality and efficiency, reduce med...Read more >

• Resolution on Creating a Health Benefits Exchange

  January 01, 2016: Florida Alliance for Retired Americans The Governor and Legislature have a duty to implement national health care reform, the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land. Politically partisan lawsuits have not rendered the la...Read more >

• Resolution on Modernizing and Reforming Florida’s Regressive Tax Structure

  January 01, 2016: Florida Alliance for Retired Americans Florida continues to confront a budget crisis. Significant reductions have been made in important programs over the past several years. Florida's seniors, children and working people cannot have needed governme...Read more >

• Resolution on Health Care Price Transparency

  January 01, 2016: Florida Alliance for Retired Americans Health care prices are generally not available to the public.  There is a strong tradition of secrecy regarding price information. Health care providers have little incentive to disclose prices because health ...Read more >