`Surpluses&#39; will cover drug plan
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Ottawa is sitting on a surplus worth billions of dollars and can afford to pick up the cost of a national drug program, provincial finance ministers said yesterday.
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Low-income Michigan residents who don&#39;t have prescription-drug coverage will be able to enroll in a statewide discount program starting today.
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Ten pharmaceutical companies said on Tuesday that they were joining a program to cut the prices of prescription drugs for the uninsured.
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Medicine prices will be cut by 7 percent under a new five-year deal between the government and drug makers that will save more than 1.8 billion pounds on the nation&#39;s drugs bill.
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U.S. spending on prescription drugs,  hospital care and other health services is expected to double  to $4.1 trillion over the next decade, up from $2.1 trillion in  2006, a government report released on Wednesday found.
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Taxpayers could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if soaring Medicaid reimbursements for prescription medicines more closely matched
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Many elderly and disabled Americans participating in the Medicare drug benefit next year will have more plans to choose from as the number of companies offering coverage nationwide jumps to 17.
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The Bush administration will ask Congress to increase the monthly premiums that wealthier Medicare beneficiaries pay for prescription drug coverage, officials said Friday.
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TORONTO, Jan. 6 -- The Canadian health minister plans to restrict the supply of inexpensive prescription drugs shipped to about 2 million patients in the United States each year, and industry officials here are saying President Bush is behind the move.
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The new dental and vision benefit program for federal employees and retirees tries to fill a gap in their health-care coverage by offering a mix of national and regional plans that vary in cost and enrollment options.
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Labor will deliver lower prices for the essential medicines that Australian families rely on says Mark Latham. For two years, the Howard Government claimed that Laborâs proposed savings in the Pharmaceutical
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A U.S. group advising Medicare on  its new prescription drug benefit released a proposal on  Thursday that could determine how likely the latest medicines  are to be covered for the elderly.
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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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The city&#39;s 30,000 residents 65 or older have a new option when it comes to paying for their prescription drugs. On Friday, Warren joined other municipalities across the state to offer
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NEW YORK  - Despite early criticisms, the Medicare Part D prescription drug plan has succeeded in boosting drug coverage among older Americans, especially for those who need it most, according to a University of Michigan analysis.
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Greater numbers of seriously ill patients could get experimental medicines under proposed federal guidelines released yesterday that would allow drug companies to charge for the medicines.
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The retailer unveiled a plan intended to expand coverage and offer workers cheap prescription drugs.