Brand name drug prices soar for seniors: AARP
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Prices for about 200 prescription drugs  in the United States commonly used by seniors rose nearly twice  the rate of inflation, a seniors group said on Tuesday, making  a case for letting the government negotiate drug prices.
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The AARP's latest list of the top places to work for people over 50 includes some household names, like Volkswagen of America (#6), drug maker Hoffmann-LaRoche (#10), L.L. Bean (#43), and John Deere (#50).
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Despite absorbing three straight years of double-digit increases in retiree health-care costs, more than half of employers that offer retiree health and drug coverage plan to keep it when the Medicare prescription drug benefit
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When it comes to finding the best deal  on prescriptions under the Medicare health insurance program,  68-year-old Carol Paremske of Miami says she knows all the  tricks.
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TUESDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDayNews) -- Seniors in insurance plans with caps on drug coverage often cut back on essential medications when they reach that cap, a new study says.
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Pharmaceutical companies launched an effort yesterday to provide significant price discounts for 275 brand-name drugs to 36 million Americans who lack prescription drug coverage.
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Medicare&#39;s new prescription drug coverage should help most elderly, including some of the poorest beneficiaries, save money, but nearly a quarter will pay more for medicine
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The American Medical Association says the government should negotiate directly with drug manufacturers to secure lower prices on prescription medicines for the nation's elderly.
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AARP is teaming up with The Home Depot Inc. to designate products the nation's largest seniors' group deems safer and more user friendly for older Americans.
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A senior Medicare official said the  case for cutting the use of controversial anemia drugs sold by  Amgen Inc and Johnson & Johnson has become stronger since the  agency decided last year to cut payments for their use in  cancer patients.
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Vanda Pharmaceuticals, which went public in April at $10 a share, has seen that price soar to more than $26 in the past month after reporting positive late-stage test results for two of its drugs.
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Millions of low-income seniors are a phone call away from getting $1,200 to spend on prescription drugs next year - provided they call by Jan. 1. The money is available to seniors with an income of less than $12,568 a year and no other drug benefit.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will expand a program offering generic drugs for $4 per prescription throughout Florida on Friday, and may bring the deal to other U.S. states before the end of the year, the retailer said on Thursday.
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Older Americans will have to pay  about 17 percent more next year -- the largest increase in  Medicare's history -- for their government-run health  insurance, U.S. officials announced on Friday.
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Kmart said on Wednesday that it is adding more than 70 new generic medications to its program that offers a 90-day supply of certain generic drugs for $15, including some not offered under a similar plan at Wal-Mart.
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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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WASHINGTON - Low-income seniors and those with extremely high prescription drug expenses will get the most from the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, according to a new study.