Each year the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees release a report about the financial health of both Medicare and Social Security.  The good news is that Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund, which helps ...

Roughly 84 million people in the U.S., including 7.2 million low-income seniors, are covered by Medicaid, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But as states b ...

Cutting “waste, fraud, and abuse” is always part of the solution politicians bring up when they discuss how to reduce government spending.  But there’s a debate about just what “waste, fraud, and abuse” really is. A c ...

Congress is off to a slower start this year, even as critical issues that soon must be dealt with remain unsettled. This seems to be especially true in the House of Representatives, which in the past usually got its work ...

This is one of the hottest topics in Washington right now. Because it’s so important to seniors, we want to recap the issue for you. The crisis has come about because the federal government will sometime in the coming ...

One of the little-known provisions of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act that Congress passed last fall requires all adult vaccines covered under Medicare Part D, like the one for shingles, be covered at no cost i ...