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• KFF Health News: Solving the Home Care Quandary

  January 08, 2026: You’re ready to leave the hospital, but you don’t feel able to care for yourself at home yet. Or, you’ve completed a couple of weeks in rehab. Can you handle your complicated medication regimen, along with shopping and cooking? Perhaps yo...Read more >

• Social Security Demonstrations Wednesday, January 14 at NOON!

  January 06, 2026: SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY! - Demonstrations Across Wisconsin - **Wednesday, January 14 at Noon** Please join the Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans, American Federation of Government Employees Council 220, and other partner organizations as we r...Read more >

• KFF Health News: One Big Beautiful Bill Act Complicates State Health Care Affordability Efforts

  December 16, 2025: As Congress debates whether to extend the temporary federal subsidies that have helped millions of Americans buy health coverage, a crucial underlying reality is sometimes overlooked: Those subsidies are merely a band-aid covering the often unafforda...Read more >

• KFF Health News – Sticker Shock: Obamacare Customers Confront Premium Spikes as Congress Dithers

  December 12, 2025: We’ve been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of the Affordable Care Act. But this time there’s an extra complication. Though it’s the middle of open enrollment, lawmakers are still debating whether...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump’s Idea for Health Accounts Has Been Tried. Millions of Patients Have Ended Up in Debt.

  December 09, 2025: Sarah Monroe once had a relatively comfortable middle-class life. She and her family lived in a neatly landscaped neighborhood near Cleveland. They had a six-figure income and health insurance. Then, four years ago, when Monroe was pregnant with t...Read more >

• Winners of the December 5th Drawing of 2025 Calendar Raffle!!!

  December 09, 2025: Winners of the December 5th Drawing!!! Check below to see if you were lucky!!!! 30 Total Prizes Drawn on December 5, 2025 (1) winner for a $100 prize (4) winners for $50 prizes (25) winners for $25 prizes   Order of Draw...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Health Savings Accounts, Backed by GOP, Cover Fancy Saunas but Not Insurance Premiums

  December 05, 2025: With the tax-free money in a health savings account, a person can pay for eyeglasses or medical exams, as well as a $1,700 baby bassinet or a $300 online parenting workshop. Those same dollars can’t be used, though, to pay for most baby formulas...Read more >

• Join us for our Holiday Party on Friday 12/19!

  November 24, 2025: Please join the Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans as we celebrate another successful year! Please join us for our annual Holiday Party on Friday, December 19th, 2025 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Madison Labor Temple, 1602 South Park S...Read more >

• Winners of the November 7th Drawing of 2025 Calendar Raffle!!!

  November 11, 2025: Winners of the November 7th Drawing!!! Check below to see if you were lucky!!!! 30 Total Prizes Drawn on November 7, 2025 (1) winner for a $100 prize (4) winners for $50 prizes (25) winners for $25 prizes   Order of ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: As Health Companies Get Bigger, So Do the Bills. It’s Unclear if Trump’s Team Will Intervene.

  November 10, 2025: A cancer patient might live in a town with four oncology groups, but only one accepts his insurance — the one owned by his insurer. A young couple could see huge bills after their child is born, because their insurer agreed to the health system’s...Read more >