| "For Merck, Defense of a Drug Crumbles at a Difficult Time" (New York Times, 10/1/04) |
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| "Medicare Drug Benefit Fails to Boost Bush, Survey Finds" (Washington Post, 8/11/04) |
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| "Survey Finds Beneficiaries Largely Fault Medicare Law" ( New York Times, 8/11/04) |
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| "Prescription for Trouble" (New York Times, 07/19/04) |
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| "Medicare Law is Seen Leading to Cuts in Drug Benefits for Retirees" (New York Times, 7/14/04) |
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| "Inquiry Confirms Medicare Chief Threatened Actuary" (New York Times, 7/07/04) |
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| "Drug prices rose after Medicare law, group says" (Reuters News Service, 6/30/04) |
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| "Drug card benefits escaping U.S. seniors" (Boston Herald, 6/04/04) |
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| "Rise in Drug Prices Well Outpaces Overall Inflation" (Wall Street Journal, 5/26/04) |
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| "GAO Says HHS Broke Laws With Medicare Videos" (Washington Post, 5/20/04) |
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| "73 Otions for Medicare Plan Fuel Chaos, Not Prescriptions" (New York Times5/12/04) |
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| "Drug-Importation Foes Speak Out" (Washington Post, 04/15/04) |
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| "Drug-Price Surge May Erode Savings From Medicare Card" (Wall Street Journal, 3/24/04) |
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| "U.S. Videos, for TV News, Come Under Scrutiny" (New York Times, 3/15/04) |
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| "Drug costs will rise with deal: US official" (Sydney Morning Herald, 3/11/04) |
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| "The FDA Huffs, but Canadian Drugs Are OK" (Newsday, 2/20/04) |
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| "Pricing Drugs" (Washington Post, 2/17/04) |
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| "Medicare Chief Joins Firm With Health Clients" (New York Times, 12/19/03) |
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| "States try to Limit Drugs in Medicaid, but Makers Resist" (New York Times, 12/18/03) |
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| "Medicare Law's Costs and Benefits Are Elusive" (New York Times, 12/9/3) |
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| Medicare Prescription Drugs: Conference Committee Agreement Asks Beneficiaries to Pay Too High a Price for Modest Benefit (Consumers Union 11/17/3) |
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| "Senators Will Vote on Plan for Medicare Drug Benefit" (Wall Street Journal, 11/24/03) |
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| "Senate Democrats Wage Fight to Block Medicare Legislation" (Wall Street Journal, 11/24/03) |
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| "Medicare Debate Turns to Pricing of Drug Benefits" (New York Times, 11/24/03) |
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| "Medicare as Pork Barrel" (Robert Samuelson, Washington Post, 11/24/03) |
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| "Frist Confident about Medicare Bill" (Washington Post, 11/24/03) |
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| "Medicare Bill Would Enrich Companies" (Washington Post, 11/24/03) |
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| "House Vote on Medicare Bill" (vote tally, New York Times, 11/23/03) |
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| "Sharply Split, House Passes Broad Medicare Overhaul" (New York Times, 11/23/03) |
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| "Time Was GOP's Ally on Vote" (David Broder, Washington Post, 11/23/03) |
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| "Medicare Bill Partly a Special Interest Care Package" (Washington Post, 11/23/03) |
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| "Medicare Bill Squeezes Through House at Dawn" (Washington Post, 11/23/03) |
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| "Drugmakers Protect Their Turf" (Washington Post, 11/21/03) |
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| "AARP Gone Astray" (Paul Krugman, New York Times, 11/21/03) |
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| "An Innovative Drug Industry? Well, No" (Washington Post, 11/16/03) |
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| "Allen: Setting drug talking points straight" (The Hill, 11/12/03) |
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| Letter from Rep. Allen to Members of Congress on Affordable Prescription Drugs and the U.S. Australia Trade Deal. (10/29/03) |
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| "Drugmakers' Profits May Soar" (Washington Post, 10/31/03) |
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| "Negotiators on Medicare Bill Fear That Premiums Might Vary" (New York Times, 10/28/03) |
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| "Congress Planning to Curb Growth of Medicare Budget" (New York Times, 10/25/03) |
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| "Fears grow over free-trade deal concessions" (SMH, 10/24/03) |
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| "Bush wants end to medicine subsidies" (The Age, 10/24/03) |
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| "Canada Looks Set to Export Generic Drugs to Poor Nations" (The Wall Street Journal, 10/02/03) |
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| "Drug Cards Could Be Fallback If Prescription Bill Bogs Down" (Wall Street Journal, 9/18/3) |
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| "Drug industry does battle with an image problem" (The Hill, 9/17/03) |
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| "Industry discourages study of new drugs' effectiveness" (USA Today, 9/15/3) |
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| "May the best pill win" (Chicago Tribune, 9/15/3) |
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| "Better Info, Cheaper Drugs?" (BusinessWeek, 9/10/03) |
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| "Let Drugs Duke It Out" (LA Times, 9/7/3) |
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| "Listen up, Big Pharma" (Providence Journal, 9/7/3) |
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| "Remember The Maine" (The American Prospect, 9/18/3 issue) |
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| "Drug Test" (Newsday, 9/2/3) |
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| "Seniors rally for drug benefits" (Bangor Daily News, 8/28/3) |
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| "Which Drugs Work Best?" (The Post-Standard, 8/27/3) |
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| "Bill on Medicare Drug Benefit Is Stalled by House-Senate Republican Disagreement (NYT, 8/27) |
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| "Comparing Prescription Drugs" (New York Times, 8/27/3) |
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| "Pfizer Moves to Stem Canadian Drug Imports" (New York Times, 8/7/3) |
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| "Medicare Drug Bill Held Up by Dispute on Discount Cards" (New York Times, 8/4/3) |
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| "Drug Lobby Pushed Letter by Senators on Medicare" (New York Times, 7/30/3) |
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| "Drug-Importation Vote Is Cue For Industry to Change Its Ways" (Wall Street Journal, 7/29/3) |
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| "House passes drug importation bill" (Boston Globe, 7/25/3) |
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| "House Approves Bill Easing Imports of Less Expensive Drugs" (New York Times, 7/25/3) |
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| "Fewer Retirees Get Drug Coverage From Employers" (New York Times, 7/23/3) |
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| "Drug Firms Gain Church Group's Aid" (Washington Post, 7/23/3) |
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| "A Fair Medicare Competition" (New York Times, 7/17/3) |
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| "AARP balks at drug plan" (USA Today, 7/16/03) |
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| "When More Means Less" (New York Times, 7/16/3) |
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| "Add-Ons Expand medicare Measure" (Washington Post, 7/14/03) |
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| "Drug Patents Draw Scrutiny As Bush Makes African Visit" (Wall Street Journal, 7/9/03) |
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| "Report Criticizes Federal Oversight of State Medicaid" (New York Times, 7/7/03) |
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| "Medicare Bills Don't Mimic Model" (Washington Post, 7/6/03) |
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| "How Not to Fix Medicare" (New York Times, 7/2/03) |
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| "Hurdles Await Medicare Bills" (Wall Street Journal, 6/30/03) |
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| "Medicare Cures Prove Easy To Prescribe, Tricky to Predict" (Wall Street Journal , 6/30/03) |
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| "Bush Tax Cut 'May Sap Confidence'" (Financial Times, 6/30/03) |
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| "Getting drugs from Canada will help lower their cost" (Portland Press Herald, 6/2403) |
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| "This Doesn't Have to Be the Price We Pay" (Washington Post, 6/23/03) |
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| "On Health Care, Maine Leads" (New York Times editorial, 6/19/03) |
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| "The other drug war" (PBS Frontline, 6/19/03) |
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| "Senate Move to Increase Federal Role in Drug Benefit Fails" (New York Times, 6/19/03) |
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| "Medicare Bill Defended in Senate" (Washington Post, 6/19/03) |
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| "Deep in Medicare Bill, a Drug Fight" (Wall Street Journal, 6/19/03) |
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| "Senate Supports Drug Benefit for Medicare Via Private Plans" (Wall Street Journal, 6/19/03) |
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| "Prescription drug law promises price relief" (Portland Press Herald, 6/19/03) |
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| "Delegation differs over Medicare Plan" (Portland Press Herald, 6/18/03) |
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| "House Committee Approves Drug Benefits for Medicare" (New York Times, 6/18/03) |
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| "House Panel Approves Medicare Measure" (Washington Post, 6/18/03) |
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| "House Panel Gives Nod to Medicare Drug Bill" (Wall Street Journal, 6/18/03) |
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| "Allen sponsors bill to study drug costs and effectiveness" (Portland Press Herald, 6/16/03) |
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| "House OKs changes to prescription plan" (Portland Press Herald, 6/13/03) |
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| "Amendment aims to help consumers judge drugs" (Bangor Daily News, 6/12/03) |
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| "As U.S. Balks on Medicine Deal, African Patients Feel the Pain" (Wall Street Journal, 6/2/3) |
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| "States' Efforts to Cut Drug Prices Get Boost from Medicaid Chief" (Wall St. Journal, 5/30/03) |
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| "Maine Case Lends Momentum to Drug-Price-Control Efforts" ( Wall Street Journal, 5/22/03) |
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| "Maine Rx will be cloned" (Jim Brunelle, Central Maine Newspapers, 5/22/03) |
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| Letter on Maine Rx decision from Chellie Pingree, law author and President of Common Cause (5/19/03) |
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| "Maine Rx law has been held up long enough" (Central Maine newspapers editorial, 5/21/03) |
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| "Bush Drug Proposal in Medicare Plan Faces a Stiff Battle" (New York Times, 5/21/03) |
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| "Two bills to lower drug costs approved" (Portland Press Herald, 5/21/03) |
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| "Funds to start Maine Rx long gone" (Portland Press Herald, 5/21/03) |
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| "Half an Rx Win" (Bangor Daily News, 5/20/03) |
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| "Maine Rx Lives" (Times Record editorial, 5/20/03) |
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| "Maine Rx gets Supreme Court go-ahead" (Bangor Daily News, 5/20/03) |
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| "Maine Wins Right to Seek Drug Discounts" (Washington Post, 5/20/03) |
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| "Justices Allow Drug-Cost Plan to Go Forward" (New York Times, 5/20/03) |
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| "Opposing a 'Formulary' List" (New York Times, 5/20/03) |
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| "Ruling May Embolden Other States to Act" (New York Times, 5/20/03) |
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| "Justices Lift Big Barrier to Effort By Maine..." (Wall Street Journal, 5/20/03) |
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| "Maine Rx still needs advocates to survive" (Portland Press Herald, 5/20/03) |
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| "High court allows start of Maine Rx" (Portland Press Herald, 5/20/03) |
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| "Seniors hope and wonder if Maine Rx can prevail" (Portland Press Herald, 5/20/03) |
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| "Incremental start likely for Maine Rx" (Portland Press Herald, 5/20/03) |
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| "States See Maine Drug Plan as a Remedy for Budget Ills" (LA Times, 5/20/03) |
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| "Justices approve subsidies for drugs..." (USA TODAY, 5/20/03) |
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| "Court Gives States OK on Drug Price Fight" (Las Vegas SUN, 5/19/03) |
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| Press Release on Maine Rx decision from Common Cause (5/19/03) |
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| "Maine Wins High Court Approval to Seek Lower Drug Prices" (New York Times, 5/19/03) |
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| "Critics Say Proposal for Medicare Could Increase Costs" (New York Times, 5/6/03) |
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| "Proposals Attach a Price to Universal Health Care" (New York Times, 4/24/03) |
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| "Drug Makers Expand Their Medicaid Roll" (New York Times, 4/23/03) |
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| "Drug Benefit Not Certain for All on Medicare" (New York Times, 1/7/03) |
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| "Campaign Funds Help Steer U.S. Stance on Drug Patents" (Wall Street Journal, 2/6/03) |
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| "Americans Look North for Cheap Drugs" (CBSNEWS.com, 1/21/03) |
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| "Maine, states team up on drug costs" (Portland Press Herald, 1/15/03) |
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| "When TV Commercials Play the Doctor" (New York Times, 1/3/03) |
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