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- Drug import debate intensifies; FDA, drug makers fight efforts to ease access to lower-cost drugs.(News)
- Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK Employers are guardedly watching efforts by state and local governments to import prescription drugs from Canada that, because of government price controls, cost significantly less than those sold in the United States. But Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK ...
- Research articles 2003-11-10
- Congress Plans to Introduce a New Rx Drug Import Law.(Brief Article)
- REP. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) says he plans to introduce "airtight" legislation this year to allow the importation of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and other foreign countries. Rep. Sanders expressed "disappointment but n REP. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) says he...
- Research articles 2001-01-15
- Public Interest Groups Urge Congress to Extend Medicare Part D Enrollment Deadline
- WASHINGTON, April 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With millions of Americans set to miss the May 15 cut-off date to sign up for Medicare's complicated new prescription drug program, dozens of organizations representing millions of members are calling on Congress toWASHINGTON, April 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With millions of Americans set...
- Research articles 2006-04-19
- Bush Sends Drug Plan to Congress; Signals Willingness to Compromise.(Brief Article)
- PRESIDENT GEORGE W. Bush last week sent Congress a four-year, $48 billion plan to help low-income seniors pay for prescription drugs, and signaled a willingness to see the proposal folded into more comprehensive reform of the Medicare program. PRESIDENT...
- Research articles 2001-02-05
- Drug Reimportation Law Reversal Sought.(Brief Article)
- A BIPARTISAN group of lawmakers is asking the White House to reverse a decision made by former Health and Human Services HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and implement a law passed by Congress last year allowing the reimportation of US made prescripti A BIPARTISAN group...
- Research articles 2001-02-12
- Medicare expansion unlikely to make it through Congress; Drug coverage stands better chance next year.
- WASHINGTON -- With time running out on the legislative session, congressional leaders are launching an 11th-hour effort to draft and reach agreement on legislation that would expand Medicare to include coverage for prescription drugs. The Senate F WASHINGTON -- With time running out...
- Research articles 2000-06-26
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- AARP Calls For A 'Real' Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit; To Tell Congress What New York Voters Need and Expect
- WASHINGTON, June 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As Congress begins its drive to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare, voters in New York want to make sure that their elected leaders create a meaningful plan that will provide real relief to those struggling tWASHINGTON, June 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As...
- Research articles 2003-06-04
- Analyzing Brand-Name And Generic Drug Costs In The U.S. And Eight Other Countries
- This study shows that the price differences are generally consistent with income differences among countries. The higher drug prices in the U.S. reflect the country's higher per capita income. The exceptions are Mexico and Chile, where prices are higher compared to average per capita income and usage is far less...
- White papers 2003-11-19
- Federal Regulation in the Absence of Prescription Drug Legislation: The Bush Administration's Proposal to Speed Generics to Market.
- For the past several years, in response to the growing public demand for affordable and accessible prescription drugs from the seniors lobby and a growing list of other interested parties, the U.S. Congress has attempted, but failed to add a prescription For the past...
- Research articles 2003-05-09
- U.S. Congress Creates New Geographic Reclassification Opportunity For Hospitals.
- All hospitals should be aware of an important change included within the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 that provides an opportunity for hospitals that historically have not been able to qualify for wage index All hospitals should be aware of an...
- Research articles 2003-12-17
- APHA Calls on Congress to Pass a Comprehensive Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit for All Seniors
- WASHINGTON, June 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Public Health Association APHA today called on Congress to pass prescription drug legislation that would provide all seniors and Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities with a comprehensive and affordWASHINGTON, June 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Public Health Association APHA today called on...
- Research articles 2003-06-11
- Millions of Medicare Enrollees Will Lose Prescription Drug Coverage Friday ; Seniors Must Pay Nearly $3,000 in Drug Costs to Regain Drug Coverage
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D- Mich.), and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), joined Campaign for America's Future co-director Roger Hickey and Americans United communications director Brad Woodhouse on a conference call with reporters today urging Congress to fix the harmful coverage gap in the Medicare Part...
- Research articles 2006-09-21
- Members of Congress Challenged to Debate on Prescription Drug Legislation and TV Ads
- FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In response to the latest barrage of vicious attacks on United Seniors Association USA and its new prescription drug ads with celebrity Art Linkletter, USA challenged its attackers today to a debate, including leaFAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In response to...
- Research articles 2002-10-07
- Concord Coalition Warns Against Adding A Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Without Comprehensive Reform
- WASHINGTON, July 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Concord Coalition warned today that with the budget plunging back into deficit, Congress should not rush to enact a Medicare prescription drug benefit in the absence of comprehensive programmatic reform. Doing so would greatly increase the already unsustainable long-term cost of the program...
- Research articles 2002-07-30
- Institute for Policy Innovation: Court Saves Lives and Innovation by 'Deporting' Prescription Drug Reimportation
- DALLAS, Nov. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Congress should note yesterday's US court ruling against prescription drug importation and the threat proposed legislation legalizing importation would hold for patient safety. According to the Institute for Policy Innovation IPI, the court rightly prohibited a drug store chain from importing discounted medicines by...
- Research articles 2003-11-07
- The Concord Coalition Explains Why the Medicare Drug Benefit is Bad Policy
- WASHINGTON, June 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Truth about Entitlements and the Budget -- A Fax Alert from the Concord Coalition Volume IX, Number 4: Last year, Congress stepped back from the fiscal brink just as it was poised to pass a vast new Medicare prescription drug entitlement.This year, Congress...
- Research articles 2003-06-20
- Pelosi: 'Medicare Prescription Drug Bill is Evidence of Republican Culture of Corruption and Cronyism'
- WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi offered a privileged resolution on the House floor today regarding the impact of the Republican Congress' culture of corruption's upon America's seniors. The resolution failed by a party-line vote of 219 to 188. Below is Pelosi's statement...
- Research articles 2005-12-08
- Seniors Coalition Praises Bush for Firm Commitment to Comprehensive Medicare Reform and Prescription Drug Coverage
- WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Seniors Coalition TSC, a leading advocacy group representing nearly four million seniors nationwide, today praised President Bush for reaffirming his strong commitment to comprehensive Medicare reform and prescription drug coverage for America's seniors in his State of the Union address. The group...
- Research articles 2002-01-30
- Real competition in U.S. can lower drug costs
- Today's debate: Expensive prescriptions Our view: Lifting ban on Canadian imports would provide little relief. Prescription drug prices in the USA are 67% higher on average than in Canada. No wonder Congress is feeling the heat from consumers to end a ban on importing U.S.-made medicine from other...
- Research articles 2004-05-05
- Rural America Urges Congress to 'Wake Up' and Pass Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage in 'Roll Call' Ad
- WASHINGTON, June 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Participants in the National Grange's annual Legislative Fly-In took out a full-page advertisement in the Capitol Hill newspaper, "Roll Call," last week with the an image of a rooster and the headline "WASHINGTON, June 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Participants in the National Grange's annual...
- Research articles 2002-06-25
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