The pharmaceutical industry has spent more than $100 million on lobbying so far in 2022. According to OpenSecrets, the pharmaceutical industry has spent $101 million lobbying on behalf of 483 clients in 2022, fighting De ...

Over the last several years drug companies and their trade groups have opposed many of the reforms proposed in Congress and supported by TSCL to lower drug prices by arguing that high drug prices are needed to recover re ...

Although President Biden’s new drug price reduction law was passed this year, the law will not take effect immediately. The need for the new law, however, was underscored by the release of a study showing that drug pr ...

We remind you that it is time to get both your Covid booster shot as well as your seasonal flu vaccination. Medical experts are concerned that this flu season will be harder than usual. They are also concerned there will ...

We are now in Medicare open enrollment season. The 2023 season began last Saturday and runs through Dec. 7. During the annual open enrollment period, beneficiaries can review and change their Medicare coverage options, r ...

A COLA this high is almost unprecedented. This may be the first and the last time that today’s beneficiaries receive a COLA this high. There were only three other times since the start of automatic inflation adjustments ...

Again, while this is not legislative news, seniors are being warned about the coming flu season because they and people with compromised immune systems are the most vulnerable to severe, or even fatal disease. Kaiser ...

While this is not legislative news, it is important to let you know that a new study out of Scotland found that about 48 percent of people who had covid still hadn’t fully recovered from the virus after 18 months and are ...

President Joe Biden signed an executive order last Friday pushing federal officials to drive prescription drug costs down. The order requires the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to outline within 90 ...

Press Brief CPI – COLA Update   October 13, 2022 For immediate use A Social Security cost–of–living–adjustment (COLA) of 8.7% is rare — enjoy it now. This may be the first and possibly the last time that b ...