The Biden administration announced last week that it will begin distributing a limited number of Covid-19 vaccine doses directly to retail pharmacies across the nation. Many pharmacies are already administering vaccin ...

Last week, the two leaders of the Republicans and Democrats in the Senate finally were able to reach an agreement on organizing the Senate for the next two years.  An agreement was needed because each party has 50 Senato ...

As debate intensifies over the cost of medicines, a new analysis found that prescription drug prices were on average 2.5 times more expensive in the U.S. than in 32 other countries. And that gap widened to 3.4 times cost ...

Consumers in the U.S. are used to have many choices when it comes to the products we buy.  Usually that is a good thing.  But sometimes it creates a dilemma in deciding which is the right one to get.  It turns out that t ...

Two bills that would provide for coverage of dental services under the Medicare program were introduced in Congress last week.  H.R.502, authored by Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragan (D-Calif.)  has been introduced in the House ...

Last week House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John Larson (D-Conn.) reiterated the need for Congress to prevent an unintended and unanticipated Social Security benefit reduction – caused by the pan ...

Lessons we are learning from the coronavirus pandemic are very likely to change things permanently in ways we are now beginning to see, but also in ways we do not yet know. One of the ways may very well be a new Medic ...