GAO: "Actions That Could Help Combat Fraud Incomplete" In an unprecedented case, federal prosecutors say that a massive money-laundering operation moved up to $63 million in money from Medicare schemes to Cuban banks ...
Category: Issues
Calls Continue For Major Medicare Changes
New TSCL Poll: 70% Oppose Medicare Overhaul Despite cutting Medicare by more than $600 billion over the past two years, the program remains the target of Congressional deficit reduction plans. Budget experts are pre ...
Public Opinion Can Sway Votes In Congress!
New TSCL Poll Should Medicare Be Changed? Should Medicare change from a program that guarantees coverage for a fixed set of benefits, to one that guarantees a fixed federal payment to cover a portion of beneficiaries' ...
Action Call!
TSCL Wants You A financing crisis is looming for Social Security and Medicare and the future of our benefits is at stake. You can make the difference. Help TSCL muster the grass roots support to stop the plans to put ...
2012 TSCL Senior Survey
How Should Congress Strengthen Social Security and Medicare? Congress has spent much of its time over the past two years locked in a rigidly - partisan standoff over the federal budget deficit. But TSCL’s new 2012 Sen ...
Economy Headed For “Fiscal Cliff”
The failure of the politically divided Congress and Obama White House to address a sizable list of thorny spending and tax issues by year’s end could pose hardships for seniors and a setback for the economy. At the close ...
Government Waste At Its Worst
Medicare Doesn’t Recover The Majority Of Overpayment Payment Amounts, By Mary Johnson Federal prosecutors recently announced the biggest-ever one-day takedown of a phony Medicare billing scheme. One hundred seven peop ...
Benefit Bulletin: August 2012
TSCL Chairman Larry Hyland Congratulates Representative Mike McIntyre (NC-7) Congressman Mike McIntyre Receives TSCL 2012 Seniors Advocate Award One of North Carolina’s staunchest advocates for seniors was recently re ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions: Choosing a Hospital
Q: I’m 65 and enrolled in Medicare. I need to undergo a routine surgery. There are several hospitals in my area and my doctor asked me which one I wanted to use. Since I’m new to this area, I wasn’t sure. Any suggestions ...
Best Ways to Save: Aug 2012
Five Ways to Get Affordable Dental Care If you’re new to Medicare and you need dental work, don’t count on Medicare to cover the bill. Neither routine dental care nor dentures are covered as basic benefits under Medic ...
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