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Proposed regulations would boost disclosure of fees that brokers get for selling policies.Los Angeles Times Consumer activist Douglas Heller said the proposal…
Oct 20, 2004LA Weekly (California) Davis took lumps over credible evidence that campaign contributions won access and may have influenced his policy. Ditto Schwarzenegger.…
Oct 18, 2004Asbury Park Press Another junk-fax activist, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, has a detailed list of suggestions for taking the…
Oct 17, 2004Train stops in Savannah to pick up people who can't afford medicine here.Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) Such pharmaceuticals are available in Canada for…
Oct 16, 2004The Toronto Star The Shannons are just two among two dozen Americans who rolled into Union Station Wednesday night on the Rx…
Oct 15, 2004Associated Press After a 600-mile train ride to a drug store in Toronto, June Marie Preston said Thursday she was buying medication…
Oct 15, 2004Rochester Democrat & Chronicle Jerry Flanagan, health care policy director for the nonprofit group running the Rx Express, said Amtrak's action must…
Oct 15, 2004Novartis draws fire on cost-cutting bidNew Jersey Star Ledger Critics said the cost-cutting move by Novartis undermines the industry's position. As they…
Oct 15, 2004The Saratogian A group of senior citizens steamed up from Miami this week aboard two train cars dubbed the Rx Express, heading…
Oct 15, 2004U.S. President Bush and Senator Kerry Urged to Endorse Rx Bulk Purchasing
Oct 14, 2004Come 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, 2004CANADIAN PRESS A group of U.S. patients frustrated with the cost of drug therapy at home descended on a downtown pharmacy today…
Oct 14, 2004Toronto 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, 2004CTV - News Canada More than two dozen seniors and patients arrived in Toronto Wednesday night aboard a chartered train that picked…
Oct 14, 2004Buffalo 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, 2004The 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, 2004The Oakland Tribune Tim Hamilton, a petroleum industry consultant who has issued gas pricing studies with the Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer…
Oct 13, 2004ABC News TV 10 (Syracuse, NY) Senator John Kerry takes a different stance from Bush. "As President, I'll fight to allow Americans…
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