"Health & Medical News"

The state Senate and Assembly today approved AB 2911 (N??ez/Perata), legislation that will create a prescription drug discount program for more than five million Californians without health insurance or with extremely high medical costs.

“With today’s passage of AB 2911, California is one step closer to bringing affordable medicine to more than five million Californians and one signature away from creating the largest prescription drug discount program in the nation,” said Emily Clayton, CALPIRG’s Health Care Advocate. “This legislation will go a long way toward bringing affordable medicine within reach of millions more Californians.”

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SACRAMENTO—Members of the OURx Bill of Rights Coalition gathered in the state Capitol this morning to applaud Governor Schwarzenegger’s signature of AB 2911 (N??ez/Perata), the California Discount Prescription Drug Program. The coalition, comprised of more than a dozen groups representing consumers, the AIDS community, seniors and communities of color, sponsored the bill in the legislature this year.

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Statement of CALPIRG Health Care Advocate Emily Clayton on the prescription drug discount agreement

“CALPIRG is pleased to join a broad coalition of organizations representing consumers, seniors, working families and communities of color in supporting SB 1702 and AB 2911 by Senator Perata and Speaker N??ez. This legislation is a crucial step forward in the ongoing fight to bring affordable medicine to all Californians.

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Popularity: 5% [?]