Healthcare

Transplanted Canadian heads home for medicine

October 13, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The Toronto Star</p> <p>The unusual train trip, organized by the non-partisan Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, is an election-year ploy designed to draw attention to the exploding cost of medicine in the Untied States.</p>

Pill-smuggling grannies

October 12, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The Toronto Star</p> <p>The aim of the RxExpress is to pressure both Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington to adopt a Canadian-style system of buying drugs, that is, buying in bulk to negotiate better prices for U.S. citizens.</p>

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

October 11, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Bush & Kerry Urged to Support Prescription Drug Bulk Purchasing</h3>

Manatee woman to ride drug train;

October 9, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Seniors, disabled people climb aboard to buy cheaper prescription drugs in Canada</h3><p class="source">Bradenton Herald</p> <p>Their trip should net big savings: Passengers on the first Rx Express trip, which ran from San Diego to Vancouver in August, saved passengers an average of $2,000 each on their annual prescription drug bills, FTCR said.</p>

Big “A” Catching Up To Dubya In Drug Money;

September 30, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>No Other Pol Raising As Much As Arnold</h3>

FTCR’s Analysis of Florida Amendment 3 on Nov. ’04 Ballot

September 29, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Proposal Would Restrict Rights of Injured Patients</h3> <p>FTCR concludes that Amendment 3 will (1) dramatically interfere with the right of injured patients in Florida to hire a lawyer to protect them; (2) encourage reckless and dangerous conduct by health care providers; (3) not lower the price of medical malpr</p>

Man of the Hospitals and Insurers

September 23, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<font face="verdana,sans-serif" size="2">Yesterday Arnold vetoed legislation requiring health insurers to pay for maternity benefits, hospitals to charge less, and hospitals to be more accountable to communities for closing facilities....</font>

US government’s war on prescription drugs

August 31, 2004  ·  Jamie Court

<p class="source">Marketplace - Minnesota Public Radio</p> <p>The US government is prosecuting a new war on drugs: prescription drugs. The FDA is shutting down storefront pharmacies that import cheap drugs from Canada like they're crack houses.</p>

US government’s war on prescription drugs

August 31, 2004  ·  Jamie Court

<!-- excerpt --><p>The US government is prosecuting a new war on drugs: prescription drugs. The FDA is shutting down storefront pharmacies that import cheap drugs from Canada like they're crack houses.</p>

Arnold’s Own Rx Express

August 26, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<font face="verdana,sans-serif" size="2">Arnold's $350,000 trip to the GOP convention in New York is being paid for in part by the pharmaceutical industry, including Abbot Labs, Amgen and Pfizer.<br/> <br/> Yesterday, a group of 20...</font>

Seniors on Rx Express roll into B.C.

August 26, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The Gazette (Montreal, Canada)</p> <p>In Canada, prescription drugs sell for 30 to 60 per cent less than in the U.S. because the Canadian government buys in bulk and negotiates rates, Rx Express organizer Jerry Flanagan says.</p>

Seniors find cure for pricey drugs

August 26, 2004  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The Vancouver Sun (British Columbia)</p> <p>Jerry Flanagan of FTCR said the U.S. should adopt the Canadian policy of buying drugs in bulk and negotiating lower prices with pharmaceutical companies, who have too much lobbying power in Washington.</p>