On Tuesday of this week Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, will hold a hybrid hearing to examine the pricing and business practices of AbbVie Inc., which sells the anti-infl ...

Last week Politico.com reported that major legislation meant to lower prescription drug prices has run into unexpected trouble in the House of Representatives. It was always expected that few if any Republicans in the ...

According to a report from Modern Healthcare, Congress is considering changes to Medicare Advantage that would “crack down on prior authorization tactics insurers use to rein in healthcare costs but can affect how provid ...

Loss of Buying Power Study ...

One of the disappointments in President Biden’s new social safety-net proposal, called the American Families Plan, was that it didn’t contain any mention of reining in the price of prescription drugs. The American Fam ...

There has also been new bi-partisan legislation introduced that would permit certain basic medical services to be given by pharmacies. Representatives G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) and Representative David McKinley (R-W.V ...

The following legislation of interest to TSCL and our supporters has been introduced recently in Congress.  Unfortunately, there is no additional information available regarding the contents of the bills other than what ...

A Kaiser Family Foundation study has found that ten percent of prescription drugs make up the majority of Medicare drug spending. According to the study, the 250 top selling drugs, each with one manufacturer and no co ...

We have all seen the seemingly endless ads on TV by former football players, actors and fake talk show hosts that promote Medicare Advantage and Medicare supplement plans.  They all promote the long list of additional be ...

Although Democrats now hold the reigns of power in Washington, if only by the slimmest of margins, they are far from unanimous agreement on many of the issues facing our nation.  Included among those are the cost of heal ...