Posted on 16 February 2022. Tags: Biden, Build Back Better, Congress, Corporate Tax Cuts, Medicare, benefits, dental, vision
I have a simple proposal to make to the U.S. Congress. A budgetary swap, on behalf of the elderly and disabled Americans: repeal the corporate tax cuts in the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA), and add back into the budget the Medicare dental, vision, and hearing benefits.
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Posted in Features, Pushback
Posted on 06 December 2021. Tags: Build Back Better, Congress, Health care, Medicare, adults, aging, dental, hearing, prescriptions, vision
When elderly people were first created, they had no eyes, ears, and teeth. For this reason, when federal lawmakers got around to enacting Medicare insurance for seniors in 1965, they didn’t include vision services, hearing aids, and dental care.
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Posted in Pushback
Posted on 08 November 2021. Tags: Biden, Congress, Democrats, Medicare, domestic spending bill, hearing, hearing benefits
President Joe Biden’s mammoth domestic spending bill would add hearing benefits to the traditional Medicare program — one of three major new benefits Democrats had sought.
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Posted in Health, Retirement
Posted on 06 November 2021. Tags: Congress, Democrats, Medicare, adults, consumers, drug pricing
The Medicare prescription drug pricing plan Democrats unveiled this week is not nearly as ambitious as many lawmakers sought, but they and drug policy experts say the provisions crack open the door to reforms that could have dramatic effects.
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Posted in Health, Features, Your Money
Posted on 31 October 2021. Tags: Congress, Healthcare, Medicare, dental benefit, reconciliation bill, retirement planning
William Stork needs a tooth out. That’s what the 71-year-old retired truck driver’s dentist told him during a recent checkup.
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Posted in Health, Finance & Work, Features
Posted on 28 October 2021. Tags: Campaign donations, Congress, Drug price negotiation, Medicare, PHARMA, drug companies
The Biden administration and Congress are embroiled in high-stakes haggling over what urgent priorities will make it into the ever-shrinking social spending bill. But for the pharmaceutical industry there is one agenda.
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Posted in Health, Finance & Work, Features