A new bill was just introduced into the House of Representatives that would protect seniors, prevent drug manufacturers from obscuring dangerous side effects of their prescription drugs in their advertisements, and help ...
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TSCL Works With Congressional Office to Pass Social Security Fairness Act
At the request of Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger's (D-Va.) office, TSCL is working to gain more Congressional support for H.R. 82, The Social Security Fairness Act. TSCL strongly endorses this legislation. We are ...
Drug Company Studies Biased Toward High-Priced Medicines
A new report in the British Medical Journal has found that studies paid for by drug companies are more likely to conclude that a medicine’s benefits outweigh its costs than are independent analyses. By one measure, indus ...
Other Bills to Lower Prescription Drug Costs Waiting for Senate Action
As a reminder, the House of Representatives has already passed two pieces of legislation that would lower prescription drug costs. The first bill is the Elijah Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R.3), which would sa ...
Bill to Reduce Insulin Costs Revealed in the Senate
Last week U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) – Co-Chairs of the Senate Diabetes Caucus – announced their new bipartisan legislation, the Improving Needed Safeguards for Users of Lifesaving ...
Government Agency to Investigate Cause of Higher Drug Costs
Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, are companies that manage prescription drug benefits on behalf of health insurers, Medicare Part D drug plans, large employers, and other payers. By negotiating with drug manufacturers ...
Seniors Also Struggle with Dental Care
What we commonly think of as “health care” is not the only Issue Seniors grapple with. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), older Americans with the poorest oral health tend to be those who ...
Seniors Struggle with Health Care
Bloomberg Business News has reported that “Older Americans are sacrificing basic necessities to afford costly health services, according to a (Gallup) survey that shows how many elderly people cut personal expenses to ta ...
Prices for New Drugs Soar
According to a report by Bloomberg News, research have found that over 47% of new drugs introduced in 2020 and 2021 cost more than $150,000 per year, compared to just 9% of new drugs from 2008 to 2013. The median intr ...
Biden Administration Seeks More Direct Care for Nursing Home Patients
According to a new report from Kaiser Health News, “The Biden administration is considering a requirement that the nation’s 15,500 nursing homes spend most of their payments from Medicaid on direct care for residents and ...
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