Middle Income Americans Play Disproportionate Role In Financing Social Security. By Shannon Benton, Executive Director Meet Leonard S. Schleifer, the CEO of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. If that company name sounds f ...
Benefit Bulletin: February 2022
New Federal Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Take Effect, But Rely on Patients Knowing Their Rights By Rick Delaney, Chairman of the Board It’s a new year, and that means your doctor’s office, hospital, a ...
How Much Would Your Social Security Benefit Be If COLAs Were Tied to the Medicare Part B Premium Increase?
By Mary Johnson, editor Raise your hand if you’ve ever wondered how much higher your Social Security benefits would be if your benefits were tied to the percentage of increase in Medicare Part B premiums, instead of t ...
More Than Half of Medicare Part B Premium Increase Due to New Alzheimer’s Drug
Aduhelm, the pricey new Alzheimer’s drug is credited with adding about half of the $21.60 per month Medicare Part B cost increase this year. It’s $56,000-per-patient price tag is responsible for half of the biggest Part ...
When Will You Stop Paying Social Security Taxes?
If you receive Social Security, there’s a better than 50% chance that a portion of your Social Security benefits could be taxable. In 2020, the Congressional Research Service reported that the average amount of federal ...
Good News for Seniors and Others: Postal Service Reform Legislation on its Way to Passage
Many Americans, including many seniors, receive their prescription medications through the mail. That is why it’s good news that legislation to overhaul the Postal Service’s finances and operations passed through the Hou ...
Medicare Users to get Free Covid Test Kits
The Biden administration recently announced that people with Medicare will be able to obtain up to eight over-the-counter Covid-19 tests a month for free starting in early spring. Under the plan, Medicare will directl ...
Biden Pushes for Drug Cost Reduction
Last week President Biden made an attempt to restart efforts to reduce prescription drug prices. In a trip to Culpepper, Va., Biden said, “The idea you can charge whatever you want is just not going to happen in the Unit ...
Congress Still Working to Stop Government Shutdown
It does not get covered much in the news, but Congress still has not been able to pass the legislation needed to fund the government through the rest of the 2022 fiscal year. Instead, they have passed two “CRs” (conti ...
Drug Prices Go Up Again
According to Rx Savings Solutions, drugmakers raised list prices by an average of 6.6% in the first few weeks of this year on cancer, diabetes, and other prescription medicines. These increases are considered to be more ...
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