Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) Hearing, vision, and dental services are essential to the well-being of older Americans. Sadly, our Medicare system has failed to recognize that truth. Since Medicare was ...
Daily Archives: January 11, 2019
Legislative Update: January 2019
How Your Opinions Help Shape Our Legislative Agenda By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Director Each year, The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) asks supporters like you to help shape our legislative agenda by participatin ...
Benefit Bulletin: January 2019
Arthur Cooper How Participation in TSCL’s Senior Survey is Changing the Conversation on Protecting the Adequacy of Social Security Polls and surveys are key means for the public, Members of Congress and the Presid ...
President Announces Plan to Tie Drug Prices to Prices Paid In Other Industrialized Countries — Will it Work?
By Mary Johnson, editor President Trump recently announced a new proposal to bring down the cost of certain expensive Part B prescription drugs. The plan is meeting with skepticism from leading health policy experts, ...
Medicare for All — What Would That Mean for Today’s Medicare Enrollees?
“Medicare for All” became a popular rallying cry during the recent midterm elections — especially for Democrats. Last fall, the Trump Administration’s top Medicare official, however, warned that Medicare has enough prob ...
Social Security and Medicare Blamed for Rising Deficits
Are Cuts The Only Way to Reduce the Deficit? After passing new tax legislation that’s projected to increase the federal deficit by more than $1.5 trillion over the next ten years, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConne ...
S. 22, Medicare Dental Benefit Act
If adopted, S. 22 would provide for coverage of dental services under the Medicare program. Under current law, the Medicare program is prohibited from covering most routine dental services like root canals, extractions, ...
H.R. 275, Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act
If adopted, H.R. 275 would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate covered part D drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries. Representative Peter Welch (VT) introduced H.R. 275 on January ...
H.R. 141, Social Security Fairness Act
If adopted, H.R. 141 would repeal the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision – two Social Security provisions that unfairly impact teachers, police officers, and other state and local government ...
H.R. 46, Social Security Safety Dividend Act
If adopted, H.R. 46 would ensure that seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities who receive Social Security and certain other federal benefits receive a $250 payment in the event that no cost-of-living adjustment i ...
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