The leaders of two key Senate health committees are trying to strike a deal on a group of drug-pricing bills, including ones to spur generic drug approvals, cut fees from pharmaceutical middlemen, and cap the cost of ins ...
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Extra COVID-19 Booster now Available for Seniors and other High-risk Americans
In mid-April, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that people 65 or older with one Pfizer or Moderna updated booster can roll up their sleeves again if it has been at least four months since that last shot. ...
2022 Form 990
22 TSCL Form 990 - PD ...
Inflation Had Long-Term Impacts on Older Households
Press Briefing 4.12.23 ...
Major Drug Companies Announce Lower Insulin Prices
As people in the United States struggle to access affordable insulin, the big three drug corporations that manufacture insulin have repeatedly and sharply raised prices and aggressively sought to extend lucrative product ...
Senate Commerce Committee Approves Bill to Combat Rising Prescription Drug Prices
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has recently passed the bipartisan Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act to increase transparency in prescription drug pricing and hold pharmacy benefit m ...
Controversy over Medicare Advantage Overpayments Continues
In our February update, we told you that according to federal audits, eight of the ten biggest Medicare Advantage insurers — representing more than two-thirds of the market — have deliberately overcharged Medicare for th ...
New Estimates Released on Medicare Solvency
Each year the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees release a report about the financial health of both Medicare and Social Security. The good news is that Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund, which helps ...
The Medicare Tax That Never Made It to Medicare
Press Briefing 3.7.23 The Medicare Tax That Never Made It ...
Congressional Corner: Congress Capped Insulin Prices for Folks on Medicare. Why this Matters
Representative Sharice Davids (KS-03) When I came to Congress in 2019, one of my first priorities was to lower the cost of prescription drugs, especially on insulin, a medication millions of Americans take every d ...