RMAC Charter 

The Rocky Mountain Action Coalition (RMAC) consists of leaders of retiree groups of major Colorado based corporations. We include IBM, Johns-Manville, US West and HP/Agilent retirees. Our charter is to interface with members of the US Congress and Congressional candidates to further the objectives of affordable healthcare and protection of hard earned pensions. We have formed a working alliance with the rapidly expanding Colorado chapter of the Alliance for Retired Americans (CARA). Between RMAC and CARA, we have over 34,000 voting members in Colorado.

 
We also serve as the health care advisory committee for the National Retirees Legislative Network (NRLN), a national organization of over 2 million members. We make recommendations to NRLN and our own retiree organizations on legislative proposals concerning health care, prescription drugs and pensions.

 
We are non-political, but we make the positions of all Congressional Legislators on healthcare and pensions available to our members. This we accomplish through retiree meetings, newsletters, newspaper articles and websites.  Our objective is to educate all of our membership on where each Legislator stands on the issues that are critical to our future. We are determined to be a force for change in the future of retirees in Colorado.

 
During 2004 we surveyed many organizations; including healthcare advocacy groups, industries, unions and retiree groups to determine if a common position existed on what an affordable healthcare program should consist of. As a result of the survey, we have adopted the National Coalition on Healthcare (NCHC) specification for universal healthcare (see reports; other organizations) as the proposal that best satisfies everyone’s interests. Since then, we have evaluated various healthcare legislative proposals against the NCHC specification to determine if any meet the defined criteria for reform.

 
RMAC also supports the NRLN agenda of changing the Medicare “D” Prescription Drug bill that prevents Medicare from negotiating discount drug costs, eliminates the doughnut hole in coverage and allows the importation of safe prescription drugs from other countries. We were an active force in furthering pension reform legislation during 2006 and will continue to push for needed reforms to strengthen pension governance legislation.

Committee Members