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The End of Annual Enrollment Period 2025

By Susan Stewart, Licensed Insurance Agent Licensed insurance agents like me call the Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) that runs between October 15th and December 7th…

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“Flo” Was Wrong. I DO Want Big Government In My Medicine Cabinet

By Mary Johnson, editor Remember “Flo”?  In 1999 she was the blond, perky, mature lady who came onto our TV screens telling us that she…

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Benefit Bulletin: April/May 2021

What To Do When The Doctor Recommends A Budget Busting Drug Rick Delaney, Chairman of the Board Recently we received the following:  My doctor wants…

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Drug Prices Paid By Medicare Three Times Higher Than Medicaid

Public anger over the rising costs of insulin and other key life-saving drugs has grown in recent years, and now a new federal analysis reveals…

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Medicare Recipients Face Steep Out-of-Pocket Medicare Part D Drug Costs in 2021

Prescription drug costs are one of the fastest-growing expenses in retirement.  Last year, about 23% of you postponed filling one or more prescriptions due to…

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Part D Out-of-Pocket Costs Take Record Jump

Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage hit a new milestone this year.  The highly — loathed “doughnut hole” or “coverage gap” closed this year.  But…

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Millions of Retirees Spent $5,000 on Just Medicare Premiums in 2019

An estimated 10 million Medicare beneficiaries who are covered by a Medigap policy and Part D plan, spent $5,000 in 2019 — $416 per month…

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Shopping For A Better Health Or Drug Plan Could Save Hundreds of Dollars

(Washington, DC)  Making the effort to check health and prescription drug coverage during the Medicare Open Enrollment Period, October 15th through December 7th, can pay…

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How Should Medicare Negotiate Drug Costs? Here’s What You Told Us:

The United States pays the highest drug prices of any developed nation in the world.  We asked participants in our 2019 Senior Survey to evaluate…

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Weak Support Among Older Americans For Medicare-For-All. More Support for a Medicare “Buy-In”

As Congress and Democratic candidates debate Medicare-for-all, TSCL’s 2019 Senior Survey finds tepid support among older Americans for expanding Medicare to everyone.  On the other…

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