Medicare to Expand Access to Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse Last week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized policies aimed at expanding access to behavioral health and substance use dis ...
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Possible New Threat to Social Security and Medicare Emerges
Within the last two weeks TSCL has been troubled by the statements of some members of Congress about what could happen to Social Security and Medicare. The four Republican lawmakers interested in serving as House Budg ...
Home Health Care Threatened by Medicare Cuts
Home healthcare has gained great popularity with many seniors in the U.S. It was especially welcomed during the Covid pandemic because it allows seniors to get the health care, they needed without having to go to a hospi ...
New Study Gives Most Common Symptoms of Current Covid Infections
TSCL has been urging our supporters for the last few weeks to get the second Covid booster and the seasonal flu vaccination as soon as possible. It is becoming even more important to do so as the cases of flu are rapidly ...
Flu Season Off to a Roaring Start
US influenza hospitalizations are the highest they have been in the last 12 years at this point in the season, according to a new government report. More than 2,300 patients were admitted to US hospitals during the we ...
Update for Week Ending October 29, 2022
Season Off to a Roaring Start US influenza hospitalizations are the highest they have been in the last 12 years at this point in the season, according to a new government report. More than 2,300 patients were admi ...
Limited Expansion of Medicare Coverage of Dental Care Could be Coming
TSCL has been pushing Congress to include Medicare coverage of dental care because so many seniors do not have dental insurance and good dental care is crucial for overall good health. Now, according to Kaiser Health ...
Record Spending by Big Drug Companies to Fight Drug Price Reduction
The pharmaceutical industry has spent more than $100 million on lobbying so far in 2022. According to OpenSecrets, the pharmaceutical industry has spent $101 million lobbying on behalf of 483 clients in 2022, fighting De ...
Study finds No link between Drug Costs and Research and Development Costs
Over the last several years drug companies and their trade groups have opposed many of the reforms proposed in Congress and supported by TSCL to lower drug prices by arguing that high drug prices are needed to recover re ...
Drug Prices Went Up Again
Although President Biden’s new drug price reduction law was passed this year, the law will not take effect immediately. The need for the new law, however, was underscored by the release of a study showing that drug pr ...
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