TSCL Believes New Policy Would Add To Growing Social Security Woes The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently began a review of all pending immigration deportation cases with the goal of dismissing those of il ...
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Medicare Remains Focus Of Attention To Cut Federal Spending
By Mary Johnson Analysts say that deeper Medicare cuts may be back on the table by the end of the year. One of the most controversial proposals would convert Medicare into a system called “premium support.” Under the ...
No Deficit Reduction Plan? What Happens Now?
TSCL Senior Petitions Help Fend Off COLA Cuts The failure of the “Super Committee” to release a deficit reduction plan for a vote has Congress facing what some describe as “a ‘time bomb’ of its own making.” The failure ...
How The Unresolved Deficit Affects Seniors: Take TSCL’s Annual Senior Survey!
The next twelve months is one of the most critical periods for the nation’s seniors and disabled who receive Social Security and Medicare. The failure of a special Joint Committee of Congress known as the “super committe ...
Legislative Update For Week Ending January 21, 2012
The House of Representatives returned from break this week and the Senate will follow suit beginning next week. New co-sponsors have been added to two key bills, and the effort to repeal the Community Living Assistance S ...
Legislative Update For Week Ending January 14, 2012
Action on Capitol Hill this past week was limited as Congress re-convenes this week. Meanwhile, a Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) report indicates the effects of House member office budget cuts, and the Congres ...
27% Of Seniors Spend Up To Half Of Their Social Security On Healthcare: TSCL Releases 2011 Healthcare Cost Survey
The lack of growth in Social Security benefits and rapid rise in healthcare costs is causing a financial dilemma for Medicare beneficiaries that may be jeopardizing the health of many who are foregoing needed medical car ...
House Subcommittee Holds Hearing On Impact Of “Back-Door” Amnesty
Totalization Agreement With Mexico Remains Pending The Obama Administration is coming under growing criticism for what is being called an “administrative amnesty.” Critics, including TSCL, say that the Department of H ...
Medicaid Funding Cuts May Affect Notch Babies
Low-income seniors, including about one-quarter of all Notch Babies, may be feeling the effects of the expiration of federal stimulus funding for Medicaid that ended recently. The recession drove up Medicaid enrollment s ...
Doc’s Examining Room No Place For The Federal Government
By Representative Larry Bucshon (IN-8) Prior to being elected to Congress in 2010, I spent the past 15 years as a practicing cardiothoracic surgeon. As a physician, I always put patients first. Now, as a Congressman, ...
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