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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study by the Journal of the American Medical Association says that the Medicare Part D program could have saved roughly $1.7 billion in 2017 if doctors and patients had actively opted for generic drugs instead of b ...

In recent weeks, some cable television programs have been promoting a drug called ivermectin as a “cure” for the coronavirus.  However, ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug used on livestock, and while it is authorized f ...