Shifting Drug Prices Muddy Medicare Card Choice

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Shifting Drug Prices Muddy Medicare Card Choice

By Bill Brubaker

Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, May 21, 2004; Page E01

As the June 1 launch date for the Medicare discount drug card program

nears, millions of elderly and disabled Americans are grappling with a

bewildering array of choices.

Enrollees can select only one card and can switch cards only once. So

participants are scrambling to find the one card that offers the best

prices for the drugs they take. But the card sponsors and drug

manufacturers have made that task nearly impossible as prices are

changing even before the program has begun, say patient advocacy groups.

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for the entire article, please see:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43609-2004May20.html

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org