When Congress returns to work next week, they face another approaching deadline: the end of the fiscal year and the need to keep the federal government operating in FY 2024. The fiscal year for the federal government ...

Once again, TSCL is the source that national reporters go to for information about Social Security and Medicare. In an article titled “Here’s What the Average Social Security Payment Will Be in Summer 2023,” the web ...

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wants to see his party’s leadership turn up the pressure on pharmacy benefit managers. “They talk in such generalities on this subject that it’s difficult for me to tell where they’re comi ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...