After losing the drug pricing fight on Capitol Hill, PhRMA, the lobbying arm of the big drug companies, is taking its battle to the courts. The pharmaceutical industry’s biggest lobbying group filed a lawsuit challeng ...
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Senate Works on Bill to Lower Prescription Drug Costs
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee has passed bipartisan legislation that improves the transparency of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) so patients can know what they’re expected to pay an ...
Social Security, Medicare Threatened Once Again with Cuts
While spending for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid does not need to be appropriated each year because they are “mandatory spending,” what TSCL is watching this year is authorizing legislation that Congress could ...
June 2023
Congress is not in session this week because of the July 4 holiday. If you had a 4th of July parade in your community, you may have seen your Senators or your Representative in the parade. Riding in parades is something ...
COLA for 2024 Could Be 2.7 % for Social Security
Press Briefing 6.13.23 Inflation At Lowest Point Since March 2021 — Social Security COLA for 2024 Could Be 2.7 % New consumer price data indicates that inflation is at its lowest level since March 2021. That was t ...
Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security Hearing on Fraud
Last month, the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security held a hearing to discuss the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) responsibility to do more to protect Americans from Social Security number (SSN)-related ...
Health Care Hearing
The Ways and Means Health Subcommittee also held a hearing last month to examine how and why healthcare costs have risen so much. In his opening statement at the hearing, subcommittee Chairman Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.) sa ...
House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee Hold Hearings on Social Security Fraud, Health Care Costs
Last month, the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security held a hearing to discuss the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) responsibility to do more to protect Americans from Social Security number (SSN)-related ...
Congressman John Larson – Press Brief
Congressman John Larson (CT-1), minority leader of the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security, held a press conference on May 23rd announcing his intent to re-introduce The Social Security 2100 ...
National Patient Safety Board
Last year legislation was introduced in Congress to establish a national patient safety board to identify and anticipate significant harm in health care, provide expertise to study the context and causes of harm and solu ...
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