Social Security Expansion
How will recent Social Security expansion efforts benefit older Americans?
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56th Anniversary of Medicare Brings Fight to Lower Drug Prices into High Gear
July 26, 2021: Americans continue to pay the highest prices in the industrialized world for prescription drugs, and as Medicare’s 56th anniversary approaches on July 30, the pharmaceutical industry is spending millions to protect their sky-high profits. More t...Read more >
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Senate Democrats Announce Package to Expand Medicare to Include Dental, Hearing and Vision Benefits
July 19, 2021: On Tuesday night, top Senate Democrats came to terms on a blueprint for a massive $3.5 trillion budget resolution to pair with a proposed $600 billion bipartisan physical infrastructure plan. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY) confirmed tha...Read more >
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Congressional Democrats Eye Multiple Paths to Medicare Improvement
July 12, 2021: Congressional Democrats are seeking to include vision, dental and hearing coverage in Medicare in new legislation rolled out this week. The bill, announced by Rep. Lloyd Doggett (TX), would initially add preventive dental, hearing and vision care to ...Read more >
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Report Shows Top 14 Drug Corporations Could Easily Afford Medicare Price Negotiation
July 12, 2021: On Thursday, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY), the Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a press conference with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) to release a new report analyzing the finances of 14 of the world’s largest drug corporati...Read more >
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Schumer Backs Plan to Expand Medicare, Add Dental, Vision, and Hearing Coverage
June 28, 2021: Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (NY) said he backs a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT) to include dental, vision, and hearing coverage in Medicare on Sunday. Schumer made the argument for expanding Medicare coverage during a press conferenc...Read more >
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Government Panel: Higher Drug Prices, not More Prescriptions, Are Driving Higher Medicare Spending
June 21, 2021: Medicare’s spending on prescription drugs increased by 26% between 2013 and 2018 -- and high drug prices are to blame -- according to a new report from the Medicare Advisory Payment Commission (MedPAC). The expert report rebuts the pharmaceutica...Read more >
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New Alzheimer’s Drug Approved as Debate Heats Up Over Its Cost, Effectiveness
June 15, 2021: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently authorized Aduhelm, a controversial new Alzheimer's disease treatment created by Biogen. Aduhelm is the first new treatment approved for Alzheimer’s after a nearly 20-year hiatus in new therapies for ...Read more >
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As Pandemic Eases, Many Seniors Have Lost Strength, May Need Rehabilitative Services
May 21, 2021: Ronald Lindquist, 87, has been active all his life. So, he wasn’t prepared for what happened when he stopped going out during the coronavirus pandemic and spent most of his time, inactive, at home. “I found it hard to get up and get out of bed...Read more >
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KHN: Under New Cost-Cutting Medicare Rule, Same Surgery, Same Place, Different Bill
March 29, 2021: A cost-saving change in Medicare launched in the final days of the Trump administration will cut payments to hospitals for some surgical procedures while potentially raising costs and confusion for patients. For years, the Centers for Medicare...Read more >
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KHN: Democrats Eye Medicare Negotiations to Lower Drug Prices
March 25, 2021: Democrats, newly in control of Congress and the White House, are united behind an idea that Republican lawmakers and major drugmakers fiercely oppose: empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate the prices of brand-name drugs ...Read more >
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