Helmed by Marge Raphael and Rochelle Lipkowitz, the Healthcare and Social Security Committee has been a stalwart defender of the social safety net. The committee has been tireless in writing to and meeting with local and national legislators to ensure that social programs like Social Security and Medicare that we have in place are protected and expanded. The group went to Washington to demonstrate in support of the Affordable Care Act and it has vowed to finally make universal healthcare coverage the unalterable law of the land.