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Healthcare Law and Prescription Drug Prices: The Devil Is In The Details…
We reported and discussed the generally positive changes to Medicare’s Part D brought about by the new healthcare law, including a 50% reduction of drug prices during the coverage gap (the “doughnut...
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Pharmaceutical Drug Price Increases Diminish Savings of Healthcare Law...
You should know that drug prices are going down in the European Union, which is good for consumers — if you live in Europe. On our side of the ocean, according to AARP’s most recent price report, US...
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Healthcare Law Provisions Meant to Simplify Medicare Drug Plan Selection...
About three million seniors enrolled in Medicare may have to switch their prescription drug benefit plan next year, says TheHill.com. The changes are due to provisions of the healthcare law that seek...
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Health Care Reform and Relief Arrive Today
Our health care focus at PharmacyChecker.com is, of course, prescription drug safety and savings. But today we want to simply recognize and report on the first real benefits to come from the now...
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Will Pharmaceutical Companies Raise Prices to Offset Medicare Part D Discounts?
With open enrollment for Medicare Part D just around the corner, 50% discounts on brand name prescriptions while in the coverage gap seems to be a great new benefit this coming year… or is it? Some...
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State of The Union For Prescription Drug Prices Not So Strong
In the State of the Union speech last night, President Obama highlighted prescription savings benefits in his otherwise brief coverage of new healthcare reform. As we’ve previously reported, and...
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Drug Importation Bill Introduced by Senator Olympia Snowe
Last May, we reported that AARP honored Senator Olympia Snowe (R- Maine) for her ongoing advocacy of policies and initiatives that seek to improve the lives of Americans age 50-plus. The award...
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48 Million Americans Forgo Filling Prescription Medication in 2010 Due To...
A new report by the Commonwealth Fund, from their 2010 Biennial Health Insurance Survey, shows that 48 million Americans, ages 19-64, did not fill a prescription due to cost in 2010, up from 29 million...
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PhRMA Criticizes Obama’s New Budget For Requiring More Rebates on...
“President Obama just released next year’s budget proposal and it has already sparked fierce criticism from the pharmaceutical industry. That’s because the plan would require Big Pharma to give an...
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HHS Sebelius Keeps Quiet About Her Drug Importation Program As Governor
Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), chaired a panel at the African American Museum in Philadelphia last week to discuss problems of access to...
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The New Healthcare Law Is No Panacea For The Drug Affordability Crisis In...
There is a drug affordability crisis in America. As we’ve reported, in 2010 48 million adults did not fill a prescription due to high drug costs. Perhaps surprisingly, in addition to millions of...
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McCain Amendment, CBS News and World Leaders on Online Pharmacies
McCain Amendment. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) introduced an amendment to the Pharmaceutical Drug User Fee Act authorization bill that would create explicitly legal access to and facilitate safe and...
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President Obama Gave Up Call for Personal Drug Importation in Deal with...
It’s unfortunate, but now documented, that President Obama, who initially supported personal drug importation as a policy to lower drug prices, changed direction as part of a deal to gain the...
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Prescription Drug Coverage Under Obamacare —Do You Need to Worry?
In 2013 some Americans will start choosing health insurance plans offered by the new state-run health insurance exchanges. Designed to lower prices and increase competition, the exchanges will surely...
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What Roger Bate Discovered about Online Pharmacies
Dr. Roger Bate, an economist who publishes extensively about drug quality, safety, and intellectual property, finds himself a bit out in the cold right now and we think that’s wrong. It’s all because...
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Open Season on Pay-To-Delay After New Supreme Court Decision
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of consumers over drug companies by ruling that pay-to-delay tactics by pharmaceutical companies could violate antitrust laws. This could mean speedier...
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Maine Poised to Facilitate Safe Personal Drug Importation
Maine residents may soon have easier access to lower cost prescription drugs from international online pharmacies, if Governor Paul LePage signs a bill recently passed by the Maine Legislature. The...
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Seniors Will Benefit From Obamacare but Continue to Rely on Safe Personal...
PharmacyCheckerBlog has reported on the potential effects of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) with respect to drug prices and access to medication. Our friends at RxRights.org provide an excellent...
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Obamacare Out-of-Pocket Cost Delays A Bad Prescription for Consumers
Americans with high out-of-pocket healthcare costs will be disappointed with a new Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) delay announced by the Obama administration. The delay allows insurers and employers...
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Average Online Pharmacy Savings of 87% to Help Americans Afford Medication...
Insured Americans, including those on Medicare, too often find that the brand name drugs they are prescribed are not covered by their plans. That population of underinsured Americans may increase under...
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Will Americans Need International Online Pharmacies Under Obamacare?
This past Monday, we reported that average savings from international online pharmacies are now 87% on popular brand name meds, up from 85% a year ago. As Americans gain access to health insurance...
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The Windy Road To Closing the Donut Hole and the Future of Medicare Part D...
Your prescription drugs will never be free under Medicare Part D. The “closed” donut hole under Obamacare does not create a new coverage period under Part D during which your co-pays and co-insurance,...
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What’s Happening to Medicare Part D?
Future Changes to Medicare Part D may curtail access to affordable medication for millions of seniors enrolled in Part D prescription drug plans, according to Kaiser Health News and USA Today. The...
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What’s Happening to Medicare Part D? Part II
Last week, we reported on proposed changes to Medicare Part D that could have made it harder for millions of seniors to obtain prescribed medicine. One congressman from Pennslvania, Tim Murphy, went so...
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PharmacyChecker.com VP Gabriel Levitt Pens New York Times Op-Ed About the...
Today, the New York Times published an Op-Ed by PharmacyChecker.com Vice President Gabriel Levitt entitled “Scare Tactics over Foreign Drugs” which explains that actions by our government and the...
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Protect Access To Affordable Medication – Sign The Petition Now!
Section 708 of the Food and Drug Safety and Innovation Act of 2012 allows U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) to destroy your imported prescription orders. Even if the drug is the real deal, safe and...
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Obamacare Silver Plans Often Fall Short on Pharmacy Benefits
A new report shows that out-of-pocket prescription costs may be twice as high for plans created by the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, than traditional employer plans. This burden falls...
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Reflections on Medicare Part D as 2015 Sign-Ups End – A Bittersweet Story for...
A Bittersweet Prescription OPEN enrollment for Medicare Part D drug plans ended this past Sunday, but my thoughts about them linger. Our website www.MedicareDrugpPlans.com received about 150 ratings of...
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Fewer Americans Skipping Meds due To Cost – International Online Pharmacies...
This will not be major headline news anytime soon but it’s true. Last week our friends at RxRights blogged about new data from the Commonwealth Fund showing that the number of Americans ages 19-64 who...
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PharmacyChecker.com Recommended by Leading Healthcare Expert, Elisabeth...
A new book about our ailing healthcare system. In her new book, American Sickness, Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, an award-winning journalist, currently chief editor of Kaiser Health News, and formerly with...
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