Drug Legislation Running Out of Time as Part D Costs Set to Soar By Shannon Benton, Executive Director Medicare Part D’s True Out-of-Pocket-Cost (TrOOP) spending requirements which are unusually high as it is, are ...
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Legislative Update for Week Ending 10/25/2019
Reducing the cost of prescription drugs has become a major focus of both President Trump and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). We have written about the Pelosi bill (H.R.3) that is currently making its way t ...
The Senior Citizens League Legislative Update for Week Ending 10/18/19
There are numerous bills in the House of Representatives that have as their purpose the lowering of prescription drug prices. The Senior Citizens League has endorsed and lobbied for passage of eight of those bills. The ...
The Senior Citizens League Weekly Update for Week Ending October 11, 2019
2020 Open Enrollment for Medicare starts Oct 15 - and ends Dec 7 Medicare health and drug plans can make changes each year—things like cost, coverage, and what providers and pharmacies are in their networks. October 15 ...
The Senior Citizens League’s Legislative Update
This week President Trump signed an executive order that will make Medicare encourage seniors to consider enrolling in a Medicare Advantage plan instead of its traditional coverage. More than a third of seniors are now ...
TSCL Weekly Legislative Update For the Week Ending September 27, 2019
As has been expected, the Senate passed a CR (continuing resolution) this week that will keep the federal government open until Nov. 21. The House had previously passed the bill and a spokesman for President Trump has i ...
Legislative Update: October 2019
By Shannon Benton, Executive Director Retirees’ budgets take a beating when prescription drug prices rise faster than the annual cost – of – living adjustments (COLAs). But new legislation moving in the Senate would ...
The Senior Citizens League Weekly Legislative Update For Week Ending September 20, 2019
As we suspected, Congress has now officially admitted they won't finish their work on time and once again will have to pass what amounts to emergency legislation to keep the government open. Actually, to say it was emer ...
Legislative Update for Week Ending September 13, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is expected to unveil a bill, perhaps as early as next week, that would allow the federal government to negotiate the prices of hundreds of drugs in Medicare that have little or no alter ...
Legislative Update for Week Ending September 6, 2019
The House of Representatives returned to work this week after the traditional August recess. The Senate, however, does not come back until next week. The August recess is a tradition that dates back to the early days ...