Health Advocacy Groups Launch Web Site for Consumers to Voice Concerns About Increasing Drug Costs
A coalition of senior and health care advocacy groups on June 12 launched an online "action center" that will allow consumers to have "their voices ... heard" about increased pharmaceutical costs and prescription drug benefit for Medicare beneficiaries. The Web site, www.fairdrugprices.org, will allow consumers to send letters to members of Congress in support of a prescription drug benefit, sign an online petition or "share their personal stories." Sponsors of the Web site include Families USA, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare and the AFL-CIO (Families USA release, 6/12).
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