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Experts estimate that fraud, waste, and abuse within Medicare cost more than billion each year. What efforts do you support to ramp up prevention?.We want to assure you that we will try to report the facts as we understand them and keep elective politics out of it..In the final days of the holiday recess, many Members of Congress will be holding town hall meetings and attending local events in their home states and districts. The Senior Citizens League encourages its members and supporters to attend these events and to ask important questions about the BCRA and its potential impact on older Americans, like the following two….Top executives of the big drug companies have requested a meeting with White House officials this week to discuss how they can lower drug prices..Dealerships and lenders that use these tactics often target older consumers, low-income people with credit problems, and people with low "financial I.Q.s" by taking advantage of the borrower's lack of understanding about loans, terms and finances in general. The lender makes money from charging excessively high interest rates and stacking terms in its favor, and from the profits when the vehicle is repossessed and resold, sometimes to multiple buyers..Before Medicare, only half of our nation's seniors had health insurance and for far too many, a mild illness or injury could lead to bankruptcy or even death. Today, more than 47 million Americans receive Medicare benefits and have the peace and security of knowing that quality healthcare will be there for them when they need it..Select a daily benefit amount. You can select an amount like.TSCL believes that the Medicare prescription drug benefit law is flawed, and will be carefully monitoring the effects of both the short-term Medicare drug cards, and the Medicare Drug Benefit plan in Medicare Part D as it traverses through the donut hole for many seniors. TSCL considers it necessary to compile feedback on the measure of success or failure of the program and its donut hole phase.."The breadth of the spending highlights the drug industry's continued clout in Washington. Even after years of criticism from Congress and the White House over high prices, it remains routine for the elected officials who regulate the health care industry to accept six-figure sums."