Medicare To Issue Drug Discount Cards To Low-Income Americans
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Medicare will be mailing out 1.8 million drug discount cards to low-income Americans who are eligible but have not yet applied. The cards will allow low-income earners to qualify for an additional $1,200 in
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Some seniors have just a few more weeks to cash in on the new Medicare drug discount card. Up to $600 in free prescription drugs are available both this year and next to low-income seniors who have the card.
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Sexual performance drugs like Viagra will be covered by Medicare's new prescription benefit beginning next year, along with medications for other conditions like high blood pressure and heart disease, Health and Human Services officials said Tuesday.
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Top pharmaceutical companies launched a new prescription drug savings card on Tuesday in an attempt to help reduce costs for the roughly 45 million Americans without health insurance.
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The new medicare prescription drug cards are failing to provide significant discounts for seniors in his two-borough district, Rep. Joseph Crowley said yesterday.
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The Bush administration said that it would simply send the cards to 1.8 million people with low incomes who are eligible but have not applied for Medicare.
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Eleven major drug manufacturers unveiled a new discount card yesterday that could help millions of uninsured Americans save money on prescription drugs.
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SACRAMENTO  As an alternative to importing low-cost drugs from Canada, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger&#39;s administration is calling for a sweeping new program to offer drug discounts to uninsured, low-income California residents.
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Nearly 2 million low-income Medicare participants could be switched to different insurance plans for their prescription drug coverage next year
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors enrolled in Medicare plans that charge higher co-pays for brand name or non-preferred medications fill almost 15 percent fewer prescriptions than their peers who have a flat co-pay for all prescription medications, a new study finds.
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WASHINGTON - A day before the first presidential debate, the government's health policy watchdog raised concerns that early mailings to seniors about the new Medicare prescription discount cards championed by President Bush were confusing or inadequate.   "We found that these beneficiaries received very little mail from drug card sponsors that would enable them to make an informed choice among cards," the Health and Human Services Department inspector general wrote in the Sept...
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Health care providers would get smaller pay increases when caring for the elderly, poor and disabled under President Bush's budget plan submitted to Congress on Monday.
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Drug makers such as Pfizer Inc. , the world's biggest, slowed average price increases on US prescription medicines in the six months ended Sept. 30 as a Medicare discount-card program went into effect, the senior-advocacy group AARP said.
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Low-income seniors and working families without prescription drug coverage can begin applying for a state discount card. The card will cut the cost of their medication by an average 20 percent a month.
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The US government will send prescription drug discount cards to 1.8 million poor Medicare patients who have yet to sign up for $1,200 in savings offered over the next 14 months, officials said on Wednesday, in the wake of criticism
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Senior citizens and low-wage working Kansans now have access to lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada and Europe through a program announced Tuesday by Gov.
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The U.S. government hopes to entice  companies into offering the elderly cost-saving prescription  drug benefits next year while making sure they have access to  most medicines, according to Medicare rules issued on Friday.