By Alex Moore This January, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it has recovered $31 million in federal payments that improperly went to dead people in a five-month pilot project. The Treasury Department under ...
Category: Issues
American vs. U.K. Healthcare: The Good and the Bad
By Susan Stewart, Licensed Insurance Agent I lived in England for 10 years, worked, got a driver's license, joined a book club, and needed medical care. There, virtually all costs that we’d associate with health insur ...
Legislative Update: Medicare Begins Price Negotiations for Weight-Loss Drugs
By Daisy Brown, Legislative Liaison, TSCL In January, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the next 15 drugs whose prices it will negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies, using power ...
Should You Be Worried About DOGE and Social Security?
By Edward Cates, Chairman, TSCL The new Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, has spent a lot of time in the headlines over the last few months. Headed by Elon Musk, the agency was established by th ...
March 2025
The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) Monthly Washington Update for the end of March 2025 Since his second inauguration as President in January, President Trump has implemented numerous changes within the federal government ...
February 2025
The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) Monthly Washington Update for the end of February 2025 Unless you don’t watch, read, or listen to the news, you know things are happening in Washington at a dizzying pace. Not all the n ...
U.K. Healthcare vs. American Healthcare: How Prescriptions Differ
By Susan Stewart, Licensed Insurance Agent I lived in England for 10 years, worked, got a driver's license, joined a book club, and needed medical care. Here are facts and observations written from the point of obs ...
Legislative Update: Adjusted Social Security Benefits Face Long Delay
By Daisy Brown, Legislative Liaison, TSCL The Social Security Fairness Act, signed into law by former President Biden in January, will raise benefits for 3.2 million Americans who receive pensions for work that Social ...
Did You Know About This Resource to Help Care for Loved Ones With Dementia?
By Alex Moore Dementia affected more than 6.7 million Americans in 2023, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), with 14 million projected cases by 2060. The disease is brutal, not just for ...
Medicare Starts Punishing Pharma Price Gougers
By Alex Moore Medicare just punished drug companies for increasing the price of medicine faster than inflation. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) identified 64 drugs whose prices outpaced inflation ...