A new study from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal, estimated that coronavirus vaccines were linked to roughly 670,000 to 680,000 fewer hospitalizations as we ...

Last week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, released its star ratings for Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans. Each year CMS calculates Medicare star ratings based on ...

With Election Day just a month away it is a good time to restate that TSCL is a non-partisan organization. We do not pick sides between Democrats and Republicans, nor do we endorse candidates. However, what we do is e ...

Is Our Health System Pushing You Into Medical Debt?  Some Ways To Avoid It By Mary Johnson, editor Even with Medicare coverage, older adults frequently carry debt for medical bills.  Despite having other health ...

What Happened To The Effort To Add Dental Benefits To Medicare? Q:  I recently had to get a tooth extracted.  The practice that performed the oral surgery required me to sign a waiver stating that they do not particip ...

60% Of Older Adults Support Two Year Suspension of Tax on Social Security Benefits By Doug Osborne, TSCL Legislative Liaison TSCL is gearing up to ask Congress to enact legislation that would protect Social Securit ...

Medicare Given Authority to Negotiate Drug Prices By Rick Delaney, Chairman of the Board, TSCL Legislation that will cut prescription drug costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate prices was recently signed into law ...

A relatively little-known measure of the cost of living of older Americans — the Elder Index developed by researchers at the Gerontology Institute of Massachusetts-Boston — recently made news after researchers found that ...

As the Federal Reserve raises interest rates which affects the cost of borrowing money, the cost of the government’s debt is rising.  That in turn is having an impact on government spending, as well as the balances of th ...

By Mary Johnson, editor Social Security beneficiaries can look forward to receiving one the highest cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) ever paid in the history of the program next year.  Based on consumer price index d ...