Senior Prescription Savings

The concerns of AARP members in several states regarding prescription drug affordability, out-of-pocket costs and financial hardships associated with paying are examined in this series of December 2006 telephone surveys of 800 members in each state. Opinions about programs to lower prescription drug prices and consumersÂ’ costs across each state are also gauged.

QUEBEC (CP) - Quebec's welfare recipients and seniors will get free prescription drugs starting in July. Health Minister Philippe Couillard said today in Quebec City the new policy will help about 300,000 people.

QUEBEC (CP) - Quebec's welfare recipients and poorest seniors will get free prescription drugs starting in July.

TORONTO (CP) - Although Ottawa and the provinces have made good on some promises to improve the health-care system, governments have failed in one key commitment - to keep Canadians up to date on their progress, says the Health Council of Canada.

ATLANTA (CP) - Layered and targeted measures to limit the opportunities for influenza to spread within communities, activated early, should flatten the spike of flu cases during a pandemic, allowing hospitals to better cope and critical infrastructure to continue to function, a report

VICTORIA (CP) - Two medical experts helped advise the B.C. government to seize three sextuplets and give two of them blood transfusions over the objections of their Jehovah's Witness parents.

To address the growing wave of ageing citizens in Europe and around the world, Intel Corporation, in conjunction with the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) Ireland, today announced a multi-million-dollar research initiative aimed at developing innovative technologies that will help people "age in place" from wherever they choose to live. [click link for full article]

CMS on Thursday proposed a 0.71% increase in standard Medicare reimbursement rates for long-term care hospitals for 2008, CQ HealthBeat reports. [click link for full article]

AARP Legislative Policy Director David Certner made the following statement today in response to the FAAÂ’s proposed lifting of the low age ceiling for airline pilots

The extent of concern among 400 age 50+ New York residents about the rapidly rising cost of prescription drugs, their support for legislative proposals to help make medications more affordable and how this could influence their choices in the Special Election being held in State Senate District 7 on February 6th, 2007, are examined in this January 2007 AARP telephone survey. (13 pages)