By Doug Osborne, TSCL Legislative Liaison Recently we received the following from one of our members: “I’m trying to find out if anyone is aware of the IRS (tax) cliff that seniors on Social Security are facing? W ...
Benefit Bulletin: July 2022 – First Hurdle to Fixing Social Security? Every Member of Congress
Rick Delaney, TSCL Chairman of the Board When it comes to fixing Social Security, Congress has no success stories. The job of bringing Social Security into balance, involves cutting benefits or raising taxes, and in ...
Can Inflation Be a Good Thing If It Means a High Social Security COLA?
By Mary Johnson, editor Is inflation ever a good thing if it means getting a high cost-of-living adjustment (COLA)? The person asking me that question could be forgiven since that young adult had never experienced in ...
HHS Office of Inspector General Says Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Medically Necessary Care
Every year, tens of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries who are enrolled in private Medicare Advantage health plans are denied medically necessary care that otherwise would have been covered by traditional fee-for-servic ...
Social Security Benefits Lose 40% of Buying Power
Soaring inflation has caused Social Security benefits to lose 40% of their buying power since the year 2000 according to the latest update of an ongoing study by TSCL. Purchasing power plummeted by 10 full percentage po ...
New Health Care Cost Transparency Rule Now in Effect
Last week a new federal rule that is supposed to give a clearer picture of what insurers and employers pay for health care went into effect. However, there are doubts about how successful it will prove to be. Patients ...
One More Try for Prescription Drug Legislation in the Senate
Congress is in the middle of its annual July 4th recess but before they left for home last week it was revealed that Senate Democrats are putting together a last-minute plan that would let Medicare negotiate prices direc ...
TSCL Endorses New Legislation to Protect Seniors from Misleading Drug Ads
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 ...
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 ...
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