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Probably not. Republicans say the bill gives private insurers financial incentives to negotiate lower prices with drug companies. The bill also has a number of regulatory provisions that help cheaper generic drugs enter the market more quickly. But two of the most powerful weapons that could lower drug costs, which the pharmaceutical industry fought, aren't in the bill. The measure prohibits Medicare from using its immense bargaining power to reduce prices. And it maintains the ban on importing cheaper drugs from abroad. Drugs could be allowed in from Canada, but only if the Department of Health and Human Services...
...three-tier plan charges three possible prices for medications—the lowest price for generic drugs, the middle price for drugs that are low in cost or are preferred by the insurance company, and the highest price for expensive drugs or for drugs that the company does not prefer...
...tier plans offer generic and brand name drugs for one retail price and a different mail order co-payment price. Two-tier plans offer generic and brand name drugs for the same retail and mail order co-payment price...
Contrary to what the White House would have you believe, the Bush administration has not committed itself to the fight against global AIDS—far from it. Indeed, the administration’s trade policy exacerbates the epidemic by limiting the accessibility of cheap generic AIDS medications, putting pharmaceutical company profits before the lives of the world’s poorest...
Clerks played all through high school, in friends’ dens and basements, usually in snippets because we’d get bored or sidetracked by the particularly provocative scenes. Then we’d head out to convenience stores (not much different from the generic Quick Stop Groceries) and waste time, talk to kids that carried around skateboards but couldn’t really ride them, walk all over town because we didn’t have cars or anything better to do. One of my friends recently described those nights as times “when we?...