Big Effort to Lower Drug Prices Once Again in Congress Last year the House of Representatives passed major legislation to lower drug prices that included giving the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) the a ...
63 Percent of Retirees Say Social Security COLA in 2021 Increased Benefit by Less Than $15
(Washington, DC) – Sixty - five percent of retirees participating in a new survey by The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) report that their monthly household expenses in 2020 rose by more than $80. That includes 40 percent ...
Surprise Billing Issues Still Not Settled
At the end of 2020, Congress passed the federal “No Surprises Act” as part of the end-of-the-year coronavirus relief legislation. The legislation bars surprise billing for out-of-network emergency care as well as out-of- ...
Senate to Hold Hearings on Drug Prices
Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 23, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee’s Primary Health and Retirement Security Subcommittee is scheduled to hold a hearing on drug prices. The hearing is titled, “Why D ...
Drug Pricing Bills Pass Senate – Now House Must Pass
The Senate has passed two measures that, while rather technical in nature, deal the prices of prescription drugs. One of the bills (S.415) would help lower drug costs by boosting competition and closing loopholes that ...
House Passes Bill to Stop Cuts in Medicare Payments – but Senate Passage in Doubt
Passage of legislation in Congress is more complicated than most people realize. The Constitution allows each chamber of Congress to set its own rules for getting it done. Because the House of Representatives has 435 ...
Update for March 20, 2021
House Passes Bill to Stop Cuts in Medicare Payments – but Senate Passage in Doubt Passage of legislation in Congress is more complicated than most people realize. The Constitution allows each chamber of Congress to s ...
Other Legislation Also Targets Scams and Fraud Against Seniors
Seniors are often targeted for their money or identity, commonly with fraudsters asking seniors to send a payment through gift cards, by wire transfer, credit card, or other predatory schemes. Retailers, financial servic ...
New Legislation to Stop Looming Cuts to Medicare Urgently Needed
Now that Congress has passed President Biden’s Covid-19 relief bill it must turn its attention immediately to passing legislation to delay billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare. The pending cuts are due to a rule, t ...
New Legislation Would Combat Scams Against Seniors’ Investments
While many seniors rely on Social Security for nearly all their retirement income, for others it is part but not all their retirement. Those seniors have investments they rely on to generate the income they need in thei ...