Start Now! By Mary Johnson TSCL has received a growing volume of email from seniors who say their new Part D or Medicare Advantage plan…
COLA Announcement Expected Soon By Mary Johnson Next year seniors will pay a standard monthly Part B premium of $96.40. The Centers for Medicare and…
TSCL Supports Low-Income Medicare Provisions, Bush Threatens Veto The House recently passed legislation that could help millions of seniors. The Children’s Health and Medicare Protection…
By Representative Charlie Wilson (OH) Early in the summer, I spent an afternoon at one of two critical access hospitals in my district in Southeastern…
New regulatory threats, some at the urging of the pharmaceutical industry, could make it impossible for seniors to purchase certain products like vitamins and minerals…
By Representative Patrick Murphy (PA) Within the first 100 hours of being sworn in I was proud to fulfill a campaign promise by voting to…
Better Medicare Consumer Protections Are Needed, Says TSCL Unsuspecting seniors have wound up in private health plans and discovered – too late – high, unexpected costs. Frequently,…
Q: I turn 84 this year and am having problems making ends meet. Still, I’m very interested in NOTCH reform. Why were we singled out…
Recently, we received the following from one of our readers: My sister was in the “Notch Group” and she struggled to get along on her…
The term “Notch” refers to the disparity in Social Security benefits paid to people born from 1917 through 1926 and those paid to people born…