Governor, advocate agree cutting drug costs a key
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Governor Bredesen and the leading advocate for TennCare enrollees may have their differences, but they agree controlling the health care program&#39;s skyrocketing drug costs is key to saving it.
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Vermont&#39;s Republican governor challenged the Bush administration&#39;s prescription drug policy in federal court yesterday, marking the first time a state has chosen a legal avenue in the expanding battle ...
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Pharmacists would take the biggest hit from a proposed rule designed to save states and the federal government about $8.4 billion over the coming five years, officials who oversee Medicaid said Sunday.
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The Illinois governor&#39;s ambitious plan to help that state&#39;s residents buy prescription drugs from the United Kingdom also may permit drug imports from Europe&#39;s developing
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Lawmakers worked behind the scenes Thursday to reach agreement on Medicare legislation that would have a major impact on the bottom line for doctors, nursing homes, insurers and hospitals.
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The Legislature completed its third special session of the year Tuesday, passing all but two bills on Gov. Bob Wise&#39;s agenda and approving its centerpiece, a resolution addressing prescription drug prices.
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The nation's governors urged President Bush on Wednesday to spare states the costs of Medicaid in an effort to reduce the federal deficit.
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President BushÂs budget would more than double the co-payment charged to many veterans for prescription drugs.
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TORONTO -- Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman denied yesterday that the province is trying to bribe doctors into cutting prescription drug costs to the poor and elderly, saying the proposal is meant to curb the over-prescription of medication to
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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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NEW YORK -- If you can't beat it, tax it. That seems to be the axiom in New York these days, where Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer (D), struggling to close a $4.4 billion budget gap, has proposed making drug dealers pay tax on their stashes of illegal drugs. The new tax would apply to cocaine, heroin and...
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Supporters of Tennessee&#39;s plan to cut spending on its expanded Medicaid program believe it could be a model for other states fighting rising health-care costs.
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Some states are paying far higher prices than others for prescription drugs under the Medicaid program, but data that would help them get a better deal are kept confidential by the federal government, a new report says.
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The New York State Legislature reached an agreement Tuesday to reform the Rockefeller Drug Laws. The bipartisan deal would reduce sentences for many drug offenders and ease possession rules used to determine prison time.
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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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The state today will kick off a new drug prescription program that could provide as many as 200,000 lower-income people an average cash savings of 20 percent on drug purchases.
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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.