Is Our Health System Pushing You Into Medical Debt? Some Ways To Avoid It By Mary Johnson, editor Even with Medicare coverage, older adults frequently carry debt for medical bills. Despite having other health ...
Ask the Advisor: September/October 2022
What Happened To The Effort To Add Dental Benefits To Medicare? Q: I recently had to get a tooth extracted. The practice that performed the oral surgery required me to sign a waiver stating that they do not particip ...
Legislative Update: September 2022
60% Of Older Adults Support Two Year Suspension of Tax on Social Security Benefits By Doug Osborne, TSCL Legislative Liaison TSCL is gearing up to ask Congress to enact legislation that would protect Social Securit ...
Benefit Bulletin: September/October 2022
Medicare Given Authority to Negotiate Drug Prices By Rick Delaney, Chairman of the Board, TSCL Legislation that will cut prescription drug costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate prices was recently signed into law ...
“Elder Index” Shows True Cost of Aging And That Other Sources of Income Are Needed in Retirement
A relatively little-known measure of the cost of living of older Americans — the Elder Index developed by researchers at the Gerontology Institute of Massachusetts-Boston — recently made news after researchers found that ...
How Medicare Spending Can Be Cut To Help With Inflation
As the Federal Reserve raises interest rates which affects the cost of borrowing money, the cost of the government’s debt is rising. That in turn is having an impact on government spending, as well as the balances of th ...
2023 COLA Could Be One of Highest Ever Paid —8.7%
By Mary Johnson, editor Social Security beneficiaries can look forward to receiving one the highest cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) ever paid in the history of the program next year. Based on consumer price index d ...
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