According to Bloomberg News, “Sen. Bernie Sanders is asking the White House to cut back a big Medicare premium hike set to take effect in weeks and tied to a pricey Alzheimer's drug whose benefits have been widely questi ...

The House of Representatives may take up legislation this week that would prevent billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare payments to health care providers. Those cuts will take place next year unless Congress votes to s ...

Now that the government will be open for a while, the Senate still has major issues to deal with and very little time to do it. However, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has said in a letter to other Senator ...

Late last week Congress dealt with funding the federal government for fiscal year 2022, which began last October 1, in the way we have been predicting:  they punted. They managed to agree on a bill to keep funding the ...

Availability of Caregiving Help Falls, Costs of In-Home Care Climbs By Rick Delaney, TSCL Chairman The coronavirus has caused many families to rethink plans for long term care as the pandemic spread through nursing ...

According to a report in Stat News last week, during 2020, drug makers raised prices on seven widely used medicines by substantial amounts without any new clinical evidence to justify the increases, forcing patients and ...

Last week there was some refreshing proof that Congress can still, on occasion, work together in a bi-partisan manner. Representatives Larry Bucshon, M.D. (R-Ind.) and Ami Bera, M.D. (D-Calif.)  announced the introduc ...

The legislation dealing with prescription drug prices now moves to the Senate for action. Everyone expects there will be changes to it. The real questions are how many changes will be made, what kinds of changes will the ...

Finally-- last week the House of Representatives passed the legislation containing measures to lower prescription drug prices and cover hearing services under Medicare. The vote was close, with one Democrat and all Repub ...

Even though they have such important issues they must deal with before the end of the year, Congress is in recess this week because of the Thanksgiving holiday. It is hard to believe they can finish all their work in tim ...