By Senator Amy Klobuchar, (D-MN) In St. Paul, Minnesota, Clare’s arthritis is getting worse — because she can’t afford the medication she needs to treat it. The price of Remicade, which Clare had relied on to treat he ...
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Best Ways to Save: May 2017
Hang Up On Durable Medical Equipment Scams By Mary Johnson, editor “Hello seniors!” the recorded voice bellows. “Stay on the line to learn how you can get a free Medicare-covered back brace.” I hung up — again. I ...
Ask The Advisor: May 2017
What Kind Of Health Insurance Do Members of Congress Get? Q: Repealing Obamacare would affect several people that I know, including my sister who is getting treated for cancer. She can’t afford to lose her insurance ...
Q & A: May 2017
Q: I work in human resources. The maximum amount of earnings that are taxable for Social Security shot up in 2017 after staying the same amount for two years in a row. When the change went into effect in January I was q ...
Which Is It? A Social Security Deficit, or Money Owed To The Social Security Trust Fund?
A common debate is re-emerging this year over Social Security’s “deficit, ” as the federal borrowing limit looms. The debt limit, which was suspended since late 2015, was re-instated on March 16th. That debt limit sets ...
Retiree Testifies Costs For One Drug Went From $700 To $10,000
Sudden price spikes in older drugs are putting patients at risk of going without vital medicine. A new report by the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging uncovered an insidious business model that’s leading to monopol ...
Highest Income Households Would Get $7 Million Tax Cut Each Under Affordable Care Act Repeal
By Mary Johnson, editor Time to hit the brakes on an Obamacare repeal. Low-income and middle-income seniors and their families could wind up paying for a massive windfall that would go to a handful of the nation’s we ...
Benefit Bulletin: April 2017
How Changes to Health Policy Could Affect Medicaid TSCL has growing concerns that too little thought is going into what changes to our nation’s healthcare system would mean for older adults — particularly those who de ...
Legislative Update: April 2017
Social Security Reform Plan is Blueprint For New Congress By Jessie Gibbons, Senior Policy Analyst Late last year, just hours before the 114th Congress came to a close, Congressman Sam Johnson (TX-3) – Chairman of ...
Congressional Corner: GOP War on Seniors Won’t Work; We Must Protect and Expand Medicare & Social Security
By Senator Charles E. Schumer (NY), Democratic Leader Medicare and Social Security are two of the greatest policy innovations of the past century, raising countless older Americans out of poverty and want, and profoun ...
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