It was announced this past weekend that more than 600,000 people in the US Medicare program may have had personal data, including medical records, exposed…
With So Much Left to do, Congress takes a Vacation for the Next Six Weeks The members of Congress left town late last week for…
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When Congress returns to work next week, they face another approaching deadline: the end of the fiscal year and the need to keep the federal…
Once again, TSCL is the source that national reporters go to for information about Social Security and Medicare. In an article titled “Here’s What the…
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wants to see his party’s leadership turn up the pressure on pharmacy benefit managers. “They talk in such generalities on this…
After losing the drug pricing fight on Capitol Hill, PhRMA, the lobbying arm of the big drug companies, is taking its battle to the courts.…
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee has passed bipartisan legislation that improves the transparency of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) so patients can…
While spending for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid does not need to be appropriated each year because they are “mandatory spending,” what TSCL is watching…
By Daisy Brown, TSCL Legislative Liaison Millions of the lowest–income and most vulnerable older Americans are undergoing an unprecedented nationwide review of Medicaid enrollees. Every…
