After a delay of over six months, Congress was finally able last week to pass the legislation needed to fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2022. That means Social Security payments, veterans’ ...
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Government Shut-down This Weekend?
Congress has until the end of this Friday to pass legislation needed to keep the government open or the federal government will once again shut down. They have been working feverishly on the needed legislation to fund ...
New Legislation to Limit Insulin Costs
In addition to general prescription drug legislation, the Democrats have indicated they will be working on a new bill to limit insulin costs to $35 per month. Americans who need insulin pay 10 times more than people i ...
Effort to Lower Prescription Drug Prices Still Alive
According to the Washington Post, “Democrats are trying to breathe new life into their drug pricing efforts …. “The influential Senate Finance Committee is eyeing holding a hearing on the cost of medicines as Democrat ...
Improving Nursing Home Care
The need for improved nursing home care has been discussed for a long time. It is not hard to find individuals who are not happy with the care an elderly loved one received in a nursing home. And yet, nursing home care i ...
State of the Union Speech and Health Care
In his State of the Union speech last week President Biden, understandably, spent a great deal of time on foreign policy, and specifically Ukraine, but he also emphasized a number of key health care issues that need to b ...
Covid May be Down, but It’s Still Here
As covid restrictions are being lifted most of us are breathing a sigh of relief with the prospect that we can soon get back to “normal,” whatever that new normal may look like. However, we need to keep in mind that covi ...
Senate Working on Bill to Lower Insulin Cost
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has announced that legislation to lower the cost of insulin will be a priority in that chamber in the next few weeks. The bill under consideration would cap consumers’ out ...
Congress Saves the Postal Service but Shifts Costs to Medicare
Recently we reported that the House of Representatives had passed a bill that would go a long way toward keeping the U.S. Postal Service solvent and in business. They did that by shifting the Postal Service retiree medic ...
What’s Next for Drug Price Reduction?
As we reported last week, President Biden is still pushing Congress to pass legislation to lower drug prices and members of his staff are working on developing legislation that might gain enough support to pass the Senat ...
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