New TSCL Poll Should Medicare Be Changed? Should Medicare change from a program that guarantees coverage for a fixed set of benefits, to one that guarantees a fixed federal payment to cover a portion of beneficiaries' ...
Daily Archives: August 23, 2012
Action Call!
TSCL Wants You A financing crisis is looming for Social Security and Medicare and the future of our benefits is at stake. You can make the difference. Help TSCL muster the grass roots support to stop the plans to put ...
2012 TSCL Senior Survey
How Should Congress Strengthen Social Security and Medicare? Congress has spent much of its time over the past two years locked in a rigidly - partisan standoff over the federal budget deficit. But TSCL’s new 2012 Sen ...
Economy Headed For “Fiscal Cliff”
The failure of the politically divided Congress and Obama White House to address a sizable list of thorny spending and tax issues by year’s end could pose hardships for seniors and a setback for the economy. At the close ...
Government Waste At Its Worst
Medicare Doesn’t Recover The Majority Of Overpayment Payment Amounts, By Mary Johnson Federal prosecutors recently announced the biggest-ever one-day takedown of a phony Medicare billing scheme. One hundred seven peop ...
Benefit Bulletin: August 2012
TSCL Chairman Larry Hyland Congratulates Representative Mike McIntyre (NC-7) Congressman Mike McIntyre Receives TSCL 2012 Seniors Advocate Award One of North Carolina’s staunchest advocates for seniors was recently re ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions: Choosing a Hospital
Q: I’m 65 and enrolled in Medicare. I need to undergo a routine surgery. There are several hospitals in my area and my doctor asked me which one I wanted to use. Since I’m new to this area, I wasn’t sure. Any suggestions ...
Best Ways to Save: Aug 2012
Five Ways to Get Affordable Dental Care If you’re new to Medicare and you need dental work, don’t count on Medicare to cover the bill. Neither routine dental care nor dentures are covered as basic benefits under Medic ...
Legislative Update: August 2012
Three Ways Congress Can Pay For Notch Reform By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Analyst Each month, due to the Social Security Act Amendments that were signed into law in 1977, more than 3.7 million Notch babies receiv ...
Congressional Corner: We Have To Do A Better Job On The COLA
By U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (OH) While many of you received your first cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security in more than two years, I understand the increase is less than it should be – and how it do ...
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