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ARNOLD’S STATE ‘GARAGE SALE’;
SURPLUS PROPERTY RANGES FROM CAR TO CATTLE PRODThe Daily News of Los Angeles Consumer advocate Doug Heller of FTCR said some of…
Aug 26, 2004Consumer Watchdog
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Healthcare
U.S. demand for our medicine worries druggists
The Vancouver Sun (British Columbia, Canada) The Santa Monica-based FTCR has spent $25,000 to charter part of an Amtrak train to bring…
Aug 25, 2004
Energy
Rx Express heads north for drug buy;
Two Portlanders are taking the Canada-bound train trip calling attention to the power of bulk purchasingThe Oregonian "Why do you get better…
Aug 25, 2004
Healthcare
Shrinking coverage stings those on individual plans
The San Diego Union-Tribune "Families are making the hard decision to limit their coverage or to go to catastrophic care. It's like…
Aug 24, 2004
Insurance
Seniors take aim at drug prices;
Event will spotlight two groups' differing cost-cutting solutionsPortland Tribune The Rx Express started off as a simple enough idea: Send a group…
Aug 24, 2004
Privacy
Rx Express rolls through county with a message;
Train touts cheaper prescription drugsVentura County Star The Rx Express was on its way to Vancouver, B.C., where the 25 or so…
Aug 24, 2004
Healthcare
Rx Express rolls north in search of cheap drugs
The Toronto Star The Rx Express was arranged and paid for by a taxpayers' group, which wants the government to be allowed…
Aug 24, 2004
Privacy
Rolling protest against high drug prices
CNN DAYBREAK (5:00am EST Broadcast) Elderly activists left Monday for Canada aboard two trains dubbed the "Prescription Express." They're heading to Vancouver…
Aug 24, 2004
Healthcare
Riding rails for drug imports
Group wants state OK to buy cheaper Canadian medications.Sacramento Bee California is one of at least 25 states weighing legislation that would…
Aug 24, 2004
Healthcare
Drug train travels through
The Davis Enterprise Passengers on the Rx Express hope to draw attention to high drug prices in the United States and add…
Aug 24, 2004
Privacy
Cross-border run;
Seniors head for Canada in search of better drug pricesThe San Francisco Chronicle "The point is, nobody should have to travel to…
Aug 24, 2004
Insurance
Rx Express to Take Seniors & Patients to Canada to Buy Lower Cost Prescription Drugs
American Rx Bulk Purchasing Could Save U.S. Consumers Billions of Dollars
Aug 23, 2004
Insurance
Governor may say a lot with a yea or a nay
Sacramento Bee "It would be much easier to not take a position on these things by chastising them as being passed at…
Aug 23, 2004
Insurance
Special Report; Less for more: The health care crunch. Part 1 of 3
Insurance ills put squeeze on consumers; Sliding benefits, soaring costs swell insurers' profitsThe San Diego Union-Tribune "What the HMOs tell us is…
Aug 22, 2004
Healthcare
Rx Depot loses bid to end injunction
San Diego Union-Tribune Critics of the government's campaign against imported drugs said yesterday the agreement was a victory for big drug companies.
Aug 21, 2004
Healthcare
Veto awaits drug measures;
Schwarzenegger pledges to reject bills for access to cheaper foreign medicines.Orange County Register Drug companies have donated at least $337,200 to Schwarzenegger's…
Aug 20, 2004
Privacy
Discounted drugs urged for uninsured Californians;
Official rejects Canadian medications as illegalSan Diego Union-Tribune Jerry Flanagan, a spokesman for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, said the…
Aug 20, 2004