We at TSCL are monitoring legislation regarding Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid as well as other issues of importance to seniors The need to fix Social Security has come to center stage this week with articles ...

While the pending impeachment trial of former President Trump, the continuing coronavirus disaster, and the debate over President Biden’s new economic stimulus bill has dominated the news, there are other things being di ...

The short answer is no – not yet. Even with the vaccine there is still a 1 in 20 chance of getting the virus.  The vaccine will prevent the symptoms of the virus from occurring.  In other words, it will prevent you fr ...

TSCL has been fighting for years for ways to lower prescription drug prices.  One of the ways to do that is to allow Medicare to negotiate the prices of drugs with the drug companies. Now, a new report confirms how mu ...

As outrageous as it is, there are reports of scams involving phony appointments for the COVID vaccine.  People have received emails, phone calls or text messages supposedly from local health departments offering to put t ...

Prior to the election last fall President Trump announced he was going to send millions of senior citizens discount cards to help pay for the cost of prescription drugs.  But he didn’t give any details on how the federal ...

New Congress Sworn in but Little in the Way of Legislation Yet  The new Congress has been sworn into office but little in the way of legislation regarding Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid has yet been introduced. ...

In mid-December there were reports that the Administration expected to begin sending out President Trump’s promised $200 drug discount cards to seniors by Jan. 1.  However, we have not heard any report about whether or n ...

In yet a third judicial ruling, The U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a rule by the Trump Administration that hospitals will have to publicly disclose the prices they negotiate with insur ...