A subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing this week on the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Future of Medicare Financing. That’s good news! One of TSCL’s concerns is for the long-term hea ...

As we have recently reported, there is still hope that Congress will be able to pass legislation that will have in it a provision to lower the costs of prescription drugs. However, it is the Democratic majority in the Se ...

Congress is back in session this week after being out of session last week. They already had their hands full with the amount of work they need to do and the announcement of the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephe ...

A few days ago the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a warning about fraudulent testing kits being sold online to desperate customers. "It's not a surprise that, according to the US Food and Drug Administration, f ...

We have told you in the past about the “Social Security 2100” bill that would improve benefits and strengthen the entire Social Security system. It’s a bill that TSCL has been working with its author, Congressman John La ...

We’ve told you in the past that the drug companies pulled out all the stops last year to fight the effort to lower drug prices. According to a new report from Bloomberg Government News, PhRMA, the lobbying group of the m ...

Unless you do not pay attention to the news at all, you know that passing legislation to lower the prices of prescription drugs in the Senate has two main obstacles: in addition to every Republican Senator, there are two ...

Bloomberg News has reported that a federal advisory commission will recommend to Congress that traditional Medicare lower payments by 5% to nursing homes, home health agencies, and inpatient rehabilitation facilities in ...

As you no doubt know by now, the increase in the Medicare Part B premium for 2022 is the largest ever.  As we previously reported, the large increase came about as a result of Medicare preparing to pay for the cost of a ...

As a reminder, the provision to reduce the costs of prescription drugs is part of the legislative package called “Build Back Better,” which is one of the top priorities of President Biden.  However, because of the Senate ...