Op-Eds

Pneumonia vaccines should be more accessible to NC seniors

by Saul Anuzis, President 60 Plus – The American Association of Senior Citizens It’s no secret to anyone over a certain age that your body changes as the years go by. While …

The Cost of Politicizing Pensions

Retirement uncertainty is high. Consumer confidence has inched down. The economy is shaky, with inflation persistently increasing costs of everyday goods. And yet elected officials are still focusing on environmental, social, and …

True PBM Reform Must Include Americans on Medicare

By Saul Anuzis It has been a long journey in the effort to achieve real reform of the manipulative practices of pharmaceutical middlemen – called PBMs, and end their negative impact on …

NJ nurses deserve quality benefits and support — and not at vulnerable patients’ expense

By Saul Anuzis – Special to the USA TODAY Network Op-Ed Originally Published here Over the past month, the union representing nurses in New Jersey’s largest healthcare system has launched an aggressive …

Saul Anuzis: Allowing pharmacies to administer vaccines is smart policy

Though it feels like we have been living under the threat of COVID forever, the three-year federal Public Health Emergency declaration recently came to an end. Yet even as we celebrate this …

Federal bureaucrats tout equity while championing burdensome regulations that harm minorities

By Kelly Mitchell, Director of Minority Outreach Originally published in The Washington Examiner here There is no shortage of examples of hypocrisy from big government federal agencies, but few are as glaring …

Can You Trust Your Money Managers?

By Steve Moore, Founder, Committee to Unleash Prosperity Every American wants to live comfortably in their old age. Many of them plan for it by investing in various retirement mechanisms over the …

Sen. Rick Scott’s Protect Our Seniors Act will keep politicians from stealing from Medicare

By Saul Anuzis Originally published in the Washington Times – https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/1/sen-rick-scotts-protect-our-seniors-act-will-keep-/ There has been a lot of talk in Washington recently about Social Security and Medicare. We think that’s great and certainly better than the …

Raiding Medicare Won’t Produce Postal Reform

By James Martin & Saul Anuzis Originally published on January 4, 2022 https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2022/01/04/raiding_medicare_wont_produce_postal_reform_810382.html Congress has a plan to fix the United States Postal Service’s well-known financial crisis. The only catch? The plan Congress has hatched …

Medicare needs to eliminate cost sharing for needed vaccines

Seniors deserve protection from infectious disease By Saul Anuzis and Jim Martin – – Monday, November 8, 2021 The Medicare Part D program has been a case study for a successful program that has relied …