I have been writing here about the unfairness of the Medicare part B premium increase for 2016.

• http://www.jackreidy.com/blog/2015/10/13/medicare-premiums-spike-for-some/
• http://www.jackreidy.com/blog/2015/10/11/fix-unfair-medicare-increase/
• http://www.jackreidy.com/blog/2015/09/26/medicare-heartburn-the-uneven-increase/

H.R. 3696: Medicare Premium Fairness Act of 2015 has been introduced in the House but is still in committee as of today and S. 2148: Protecting Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2015 has been introduced in the Senate but is still in committee as of today.

You can follow progress on the bills at https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr3696 and https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr3696.

To summarize to date the bills have been introduced in both the House and the Senate and on October 7 were referred to committee. It seems nothing has happened since then.

It seems Congress has other urgent business as a result of not passing the increased debt ceiling and the budget in a timely manner.

Let’s hope they address this Medicare Premium Fairness issue either after they settle the bigger issues or while they are procrastinating