Health Care System Weaknesses Magnified During Pandemic During the coronavirus pandemic, health care in the United States, or at least certain parts of it, has received more attention than ever before.  As a society w ...

Medicare Pays More for Drugs than Medicaid Last week the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report that revealed Medicare outpatient plans are three times more expensive for the same drugs as those covered b ...

Will Our New Congress Pass a Benefit Boost? By Shannon Benton, Executive Director As our nation goes through the process of getting vaccinated for COVID-19 and getting our lives back on track, TSCL is working on a ...

Senate Finally Gets Organized Last week, the two leaders of the Republicans and Democrats in the Senate finally were able to reach an agreement on organizing the Senate for the next two years.  An agreement was needed ...

In Congress this Week While the pending impeachment trial of former President Trump, the continuing coronavirus disaster, and the debate over President Biden’s new economic stimulus bill has dominated the news, there ...

New Congress Sworn in but Little in the Way of Legislation Yet The new Congress has been sworn into office but little in the way of legislation regarding Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid has yet been introduced.  ...

Emergency 3% COLA, Social Security And Medicare Issues Land on the Congressional Priority List By Shannon Benton, Executive Director Before the New Year even started, TSCL had been working to convince Members of ou ...

As we begin a new year, we hope you had the best holiday season possible under the conditions we all continue to face because of the coronavirus pandemic.  We know the past ten months have been extremely hard for many Am ...