The short answer is no – not yet. Even with the vaccine there is still a 1 in 20 chance of getting the virus. The vaccine will prevent the symptoms of the virus from occurring. In other words, it will prevent you fr ...
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Medicare Needs to be able to Negotiate Prescription Drug Prices
TSCL has been fighting for years for ways to lower prescription drug prices. One of the ways to do that is to allow Medicare to negotiate the prices of drugs with the drug companies. Now, a new report confirms how mu ...
Beware of COVID Vaccine Scams
As outrageous as it is, there are reports of scams involving phony appointments for the COVID vaccine. People have received emails, phone calls or text messages supposedly from local health departments offering to put t ...
Senior Drug Discount Cards Promise is Dead
Prior to the election last fall President Trump announced he was going to send millions of senior citizens discount cards to help pay for the cost of prescription drugs. But he didn’t give any details on how the federal ...
New Congress Sworn in but Little in the Way of Legislation Yet
New Congress Sworn in but Little in the Way of Legislation Yet The new Congress has been sworn into office but little in the way of legislation regarding Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid has yet been introduced. ...
January 16, 2021
New Congress Sworn in but Little in the Way of Legislation Yet The new Congress has been sworn into office but little in the way of legislation regarding Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid has yet been introduced. ...
How COVID-19 Affected Typical Retiree Costs in 2020 Seniors Need A Boost!
Washington, DC) – An eye - popping new list compiled by The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) indicates that, by late 2020, price increases for many of the expenditures of older Americans far outstripped the modest 1.3 perce ...
Drug Discount Cards
In mid-December there were reports that the Administration expected to begin sending out President Trump’s promised $200 drug discount cards to seniors by Jan. 1. However, we have not heard any report about whether or n ...
Judge Rules Hospitals Must Disclose Prices
In yet a third judicial ruling, The U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a rule by the Trump Administration that hospitals will have to publicly disclose the prices they negotiate with insur ...
Two Courts Halt Rule Tying Certain Drug Prices to Other Countries
Near the end of this past November President Trump issued two rules aimed at lowering prescription drug prices that affect Medicare beneficiaries. The rules followed up on executive orders that Trump signed in July. O ...
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