Newsweek - Health: Carded For Drugs

Last week the uninsured caught a small break on the high price of prescription drugs. Ten pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and AstraZeneca, unveiled the Together Rx Access card, which will give some 36 million Americans without health coverage the chance to save roughly 25 to 40 percent on select prescriptions, including top sellers Lipitor, Synthroid and Zoloft.

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With the card, a patient would pay $7.23 for a Viagra tablet instead of about $10. But not everyone qualifies. The program is only for legal U.S. residents who lack public or private prescription-drug coverage, who are ineligible for Medicare and who earn less than $30,000 a year (for a single person) or $60,000 (for a family of four). To apply, call 800-444-4106 …

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