Drug Bust.(prescription drug discount cards)
American Prospect, The, August, 2001 by MOONEY, CHRIS
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> WHAT IN THE WORLD are prescription-drug discount cards? After President Bush's midsummer announcement of a plan to endorse these private-sector marketing gimmicks through Medicare, many in the media appeared flummoxed. The papers duly reported on Democrat-Republican skirmishes over whether the cards could deliver real price breaks for Medicare's 14 million beneficiaries who lack prescription-drug coverage--and noted that pharmacy-benefits giants like AdvancePCS, Express Scripts, Caremark, Merck-Medco, and Wellpoint were queuing up to run Bush's program as a self-regulated ...
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