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Healthcare

U.S. Seniors Aboard the Rx Express Save 60% on Prescriptions in Canada

U.S. President Bush and Senator Kerry Urged to Endorse Rx Bulk Purchasing

Oct 14, 2004

Healthcare

U.S. seniors take ‘Rx Express’ to T.O.:

Come to buy lower-cost Canadian prescriptionsThe Standard (St. Catharines, Ontario) The Toronto-bound Amtrak train departed Miami on Monday and stopped in dozens…

Oct 14, 2004

Healthcare

U.S. seniors descend on Toronto pharmacy

CANADIAN PRESS A group of U.S. patients frustrated with the cost of drug therapy at home descended on a downtown pharmacy today…

Oct 14, 2004

Privacy

Seniors’ freedom train pulls into town

Toronto Star Two dozen aging and ailing Americans who last night completed a 3,500 kilometre train journey to Union Station as modern-day…

Oct 14, 2004

Healthcare

Presidential Debate on Prescription Drug Prices Isn’t Stopping the RxExpress

CTV - News Canada More than two dozen seniors and patients arrived in Toronto Wednesday night aboard a chartered train that picked…

Oct 14, 2004

Privacy

CONSUMER GROUP, AMTRAK TRADE JABS OVER RXEXPRESS

Buffalo News (New York) A train ride from Miami to Toronto by a group of U.S. senior citizens intent on buying low-cost…

Oct 14, 2004

Healthcare

U.S. seniors ride ‘Rx Express’ to Toronto to buy lower-cost prescriptions

The Canadian Press (CP) More than two dozen U.S. seniors and patients rolled into Toronto Wednesday night aboard the Rx Express a…

Oct 13, 2004

Healthcare

Transplanted Canadian heads home for medicine

The Toronto Star The unusual train trip, organized by the non-partisan Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, is an election-year ploy designed…

Oct 13, 2004

Energy

Records at pump may not be far off

The Oakland Tribune Tim Hamilton, a petroleum industry consultant who has issued gas pricing studies with the Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer…

Oct 13, 2004

Privacy

Group fed up with high prescription drug costs

ABC News TV 10 (Syracuse, NY) Senator John Kerry takes a different stance from Bush. "As President, I'll fight to allow Americans…

Oct 13, 2004

Healthcare

Riding the Rails: All Aboard the RX Express

The RX Express started its journey in Miami, Florida, and stopped at the Rensselaer Train Station. It's traveling across the East Coast…

Oct 13, 2004

Energy

Shell, EPA work on deal to keep Bakersfield, Calif., refinery open

The Bakersfield Californian Jamie Court, a spokesman for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights in Santa Monica, said extending the refinery's…

Oct 12, 2004

Privacy

Seniors, en route to Canada to buy cheaper drugs, stop in New York City

Associated Press The caravan, dubbed the Rx Express, started Monday in Miami and stopped in Manhattan on Tuesday to pick up more…

Oct 12, 2004

Healthcare

Pill-smuggling grannies

The Toronto Star The aim of the RxExpress is to pressure both Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington to adopt a Canadian-style…

Oct 12, 2004

Privacy

‘RX EXPRESS’ TAKES SENIORS TO CANADA

Orlando Sentinel (Florida) A 77-year-old Ocoee man boarded the so-called "Rx Express" for Canada, where he hopes to buy his medications for…

Oct 12, 2004

Courtroom

‘RX EXPRESS’ STEAMS THROUGH PENN STATION

The New York Sun The RxExpress train trip, which started in Miami yesterday, was designed to bring attention to the practice of…

Oct 12, 2004

Healthcare

Rx Express to Take Seniors & Patients to Canada to Buy Lower Cost Prescription Drugs;

Bush & Kerry Urged to Support Prescription Drug Bulk Purchasing

Oct 11, 2004

Privacy

Tired of high prescription drug prices? Take the Rx Express to Toronto

Palm Beach Post (Florida) The California-based FTCR sponsored a similar ride up the West Coast in August, and both trips provide the…

Oct 11, 2004