As people in the United States struggle to access affordable insulin, the big three drug corporations that manufacture insulin have repeatedly and sharply raised prices and aggressively sought to extend lucrative product ...

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has recently passed the bipartisan Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act to increase transparency in prescription drug pricing and hold pharmacy benefit m ...

In our February update, we told you that according to federal audits, eight of the ten biggest Medicare Advantage insurers — representing more than two-thirds of the market — have deliberately overcharged Medicare for th ...

Each year the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees release a report about the financial health of both Medicare and Social Security.  The good news is that Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund, which helps ...

Roughly 84 million people in the U.S., including 7.2 million low-income seniors, are covered by Medicaid, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But as states b ...

Cutting “waste, fraud, and abuse” is always part of the solution politicians bring up when they discuss how to reduce government spending.  But there’s a debate about just what “waste, fraud, and abuse” really is. A c ...

Congress is off to a slower start this year, even as critical issues that soon must be dealt with remain unsettled. This seems to be especially true in the House of Representatives, which in the past usually got its work ...