The costs of prescription drugs and working to lower them will be among the top health issues facing the Biden administration in 2024, with Supreme Court activity, drugmaker lawsuits, and other hurdles expected to compli ...
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The U.S. Health Care Spending Exceeds Six Countries Combined
According to a report in StatNews, “… the U.S. government spent more on health care last year than the governments of Germany, the U.K., Italy, Spain, Austria, and France combined spent to provide universal health care c ...
Medicare Transparency Bill Passes in the House
One of the few things the House of Representatives managed to accomplish in 2023 was the passage on December 11 of H.R. 5378, the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, a bipartisan healthcare bill that would impose new tra ...
Important Legislation Congress Failed to Pass
As has become usual in recent years, Congress failed to pass the legislation needed to fund the federal government for the new fiscal year 2024. They didn’t pass much else, either. Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy rebuked ...
Press Brief 12.12.2023 Two-thirds of Seniors Say Household Budget 10% Higher Than a Year Ago
For immediate release: December 12, 2023 Two-thirds of Seniors Say Household Budget 10% Higher Than a Year Ago Sticky Inflation Worst For Many High-Ticket Senior Costs More than two-thirds of older adults say thei ...
November 2023
The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) Monthly Washington Update for the end of November 2023 Biden Administration Takes Another Step Toward Lowering Drug Prices The Biden administration has determined that it has the aut ...
Senate Committee Investigate Medicare Advantage Enrollment Schemes
In our September update, we wrote about a video conference TSCL participated in that discussed the Medicare Advantage (MA) ads that inundate TV and mailboxes every fall during open enrollment season. We learned that t ...
It is Important that You have Prescription Drug Coverage
Open enrollment season is the time of the year when you can make changes to your prescription drug coverage. If you’re eligible for Medicare and don’t have creditable drug coverage, which means drug coverage that is a ...
TSCL Prediction is Correct: 2024 Social Security COLA will be 3.2%; Medicare Announces 2024 Premium Hike
As TSCL’s analyst Mary Johnson predicted, the government announced that the Social Security COLA for 2024 will be 3.2%. That amounts to, on average, another $50 or so a month, bringing the average Social Security chec ...
TSCL Endorses Drug Price Transparency Legislation Introduced in Congress
U.S. Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) have recently introduced bipartisan, bicameral (House & Senate) legislation to require pharmaceutical companies to disclose the price of their dr ...
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