TSCL had been hoping that Medicare coverage for hearing, dental and vision services would be included in the new legislation but the agreement reached last week includes only hearing services. According to Kaiser Heal ...

We are at a strange point in our society where on the one hand, drug companies are heroes for the way they developed vaccines against Covid-19 so quickly – vaccines that have saved many lives and allowed us to think abou ...

Last week the Democratic majorities in Congress reached an agreement on new measures to begin reducing prescription drug prices.  These are not as far-reaching as those proposed previously but they still are major steps ...

As we have been reporting, the changes in Medicare will be part of an overall infrastructure bill that President Biden has proposed and that both the House and the Senate have been working on for weeks. The uncertaint ...

We had also hoped that by this time we could give you information about what’s in the legislation that’s been passed in Congress concerning reducing drug prices.  But we can’t do that because nothing’s been passed yet. ...

Last week Congressman John Larson (D-Conn.), Chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced a revised version of the Social Security 2100 bill. The bill has nearly 200 c ...

According to a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, per capita health care spending for the elderly in the US is substantially higher than for the population as a whole. One reason for this is high presc ...

This is not a legislative issue, but we are giving the information because it could affect many seniors, as well as others, of course. Recently, the Red Cross announced it faces an emergency blood and platelet shortag ...

One potential casualty of the negotiations taking place among the Democrats is an expansion of Medicare that would add dental, vision and hearing benefits. The provision is favored by progressives, but at $350 billion ov ...

For the last month, at least, we’ve been reporting each week on the fate of attempts by the slim Democratic majorities in Congress to put together legislation that would improve Medicare in one way or another. It is e ...