The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, a membership organization, exists to protect, preserve, promote, and ensure the financial security, health, and the well being of current and future generations of maturing Americans.

The OWL Observer is an online newsletter published throughout the year with the latest on OWL’s work.

Attacks on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid focus, almost exclusively, on what they cost. They seldom mention what they accomplish, that private substitutes would cost more and that their absence would be devastating.

OWL was invited to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building for a celebration of women’s fight against breast cancer.

A new OWL survey of women showed women of all ages need more information about menopause, and that younger women, in particular, often lack even basic information about this major life stage. Nearly 70 percent of younger women (age 30-44)...

On September 12, OWL’s Bobbie Brinegar, Executive Director, and Camille Browne attended President Obama’s American Jobs Act event at the White House Rose Garden.

On July 30th, Medicare will celebrate its 46th year. This well-respected program has been providing affordable and reliable health insurance for elderly and disabled Americans for nearly half a century, while maintaining low administrative costs (below 3%).

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In Nancy Altman’s all- encompassing book, The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble, she explains that “Roosevelt’s vision for Social Security as a ‘sound and adequate protection against the vicissitudes of modern life,’ has transformed society from a world of poorhouses and elderly parents living with adult children to an era of financial independence in old age.