John_Rother - NEWS CONFERENCE AARP

NEWS CONFERENCE AARP

John Rother, Director of Policy and Strategy, speaks at a news conference to summarize the increase in price for drug perscriptions in the first quarter of the year and to introduce AARP's new " Rx Watchdog Report" at the AARP Headquarters in Washington, June 30, 2004. (UPI Photo/Arianne Starnes)


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WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- The Bush administration is backing a proposal to charge upper-income seniors more for using Medicare's prescription drug benefit, officials said.
NEW YORK, July 14 (UPI) -- The Medicare Part D prescription-drug plan helps beneficiaries save money but needs to be simplified, a healthcare industry survey finds.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The largest seniors group in the United States, the AARP, is urging Congress to change the new prescription drug plan to lower prices and help the poor.
WASHINGTON, May 26 (UPI) -- The senior citizen organization known as AARP released a study Wednesday that points out rising prescription drug prices and, while it feeds a seemingly endless outrage over U.S. healthcare costs, it fails to get us any closer to answering a key question:
WASHINGTON, May 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. seniors group Wednesday said prices pharmaceutical companies charge wholesalers for brandname drugs rose by three times the rate of inflation in 2003.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Dr. Mark McClellan, a politically savvy physician and economist with White House experience, is viewed by analysts, consumer advocates and healthcare industry o
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The Medicare prescription drug bill Congress passed last month is not yet law, but already change is in the air -- especially among Democrats, who grew so upset with the legislation they voted against an issue they once championed.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- The congressional conference committee working on a new Medicare bill reportedly is softening controversial language that would privatize the senior health insurance program in 2010, but the effort still might not be enough to sway angry Democrats, who op
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