The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on a bill that would allow Medicare to continue to offer telehealth services, which were originally permitted during the Covid-19 public health emergency, throu ...
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Senate Democrats Push to Finalize Drug-Price Bill
Reporting on legislation to lower prescription drug prices has been like riding a seesaw. One week, things look good and the next week it all falls apart. The latest news is that Senate Democrats seem to finally have ...
Congress Heads Toward August Recess with Much Left to Do
This week is the final week the House of Representatives will be in session before the annual August congressional recess. The Senate is scheduled to stay in Washington one week longer. This annual occurrence is a con ...
H.R. 82, The Social Security Fairness Act
H.R. 82, The Social Security Fairness Act, has finally reached the magic number of over 290 co-sponsors. The Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82), if passed into law, would eliminate the Windfall Elimination Provision ...
Bill to Lower Insulin Costs Faces Delays in Senate
Last week we also reported on a bi-partisan bill in the Senate that would lower the cost of insulin and cap the out-of-pocket cost to diabetes patients at $35 a month. Because it was developed by Senators Jeanne Shaheen ...
Manchin Torpedoes Plan for Bill to Lower Drug Prices
For the past few weeks, we have been reporting that the Democratic majority in the Senate was going to try to pass a bill to lower prescription drug costs before Congress goes on its annual August recess. We said that ...
TSCL Makes News on Social Security COLA Increase
Once again, TSCL is being quoted in a number of media outlines regarding its forecast of the 2023 Social Security COLA. Among them is Yahoo Finance, which said this: “Based on new inflation data through June, the cost ...
Government Agency may Join Effort to Lower Drug Prices
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is considering the use of a rarely used anti-price discrimination law to potentially crack down on dominant companies’ unfair use of market power. The Federal Trade Commission is rampin ...
Insulin Costs Not Included in New Bill
One of the goals of many members of Congress has been to lower the cost of insulin. However, the latest bill to lower prescription drug prices removes a provision to cap patients’ insulin costs at $35 per month. That ...
Social Security Solvency
Extending the solvency of Social Security, along with lower prescription drug prices, has been at the top of TSCL’s agenda for several years so we are pleased the Senate is addressing those issues in this bill. The wa ...
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