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For more information about town hall meetings near you during the holiday recess, call the local offices of your Members of Congress. For contact information, click HERE..CBO Scores BCRA, Leaders Postpone Vote.However, that all depends on the development of a vaccine that proves to be effective. Dr. Anthony Fauci believes that the Food and Drug Administration will approve a vaccine if it only works 50% of the time..Recently we received the following example:.By Representative Mike Garcia.However, those projections were made prior to the severe economic downturn caused by the pandemic. Those funds will be affected both by the amount each program spends this year, and by the lower-than-projected revenue because of the depression-level unemployment. Those factors will not be determined until the end of this year. And until a vaccine or an effective treatment is found, the improvement in the economic outlook remains very uncertain..According to the new Medicare Trustee Report released in April of this year, Medicare Part B premiums for 2020 are expected to rise .80 from 5.50 to 4.30 in 2020. That would swallow the entire COLA of Social Security recipients with benefits of about 5 or less. According to Social Security data, roughly 4 million low benefit Social Security recipients could be at risk of seeing no growth in their net Social Security benefit due to rising Part B premiums..Experts said the long-term effects of the virus on doctors and Medicare remain unknown. But the shortage of cash that many doctors are experiencing because of the coronavirus epidemic has revealed the shortcomings of how primary care doctors are paid..My brand name drug is supposed to go generic this year. Will my drug plan cover the generic and if so will I be notified?