Health Action 2003 Tool Kit: Prescription Drugs

• Prescription Drug Access: Not Just A Medicare Problem (Center for Studying Health System Change)
• Prescription Drug Discount Cards: Current Programs and Issues (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Talking with the Media About Rising Prescription Drug Prices (Families USA)
• Bitter Pill: The Rising Prices of Prescription Drugs for Older Americans (Families USA)
• Talking with the Media about 2002 Report "Profiting From Pain" (Families USA)
• Profiting from Pain: Where Prescription Drug Dollars Go (Families USA)
• New Survey of Seniors in Eight States Finds Nearly One in Four Skipping Doses or Not Filling Prescriptions Due to Cost (Kaiser Family Foundation & Commonwealth Fund)
• State Strive to Limit Medicaid Expenditures for Prescribed Drugs (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Federal Policies Affecting The Cost and Availability of New Pharmaceuticals (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Would Lower Prescription Drug Prices Curb Drug Company Research and Development (Public Citizen)
• Citing Cost, One of Four Seniors Skips Medication Doses or Doesn't Fill Prescriptions (The Commonwealth Fund)
• Understanding the Effects of Direct-to-Customer Prescription Drug Advertising (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Prescription Drug Trends - A Chartbook Update (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• The Other Drug War II: Drug Companies Use an Army of 623 Lobbyists to Keep Profits Up (Public Citizen)
• Changing Patterns of Pharmaceutical Innovation (National Institute for Health Care Management)
• Generic Drug Entry Prior to Patent Expiration (Federal Trade Commission)
• Getting Access to Generic Drugs: A Timeline(Families USA) (In Front Pocket)
• Delayed Access to Generics is Costly (Families USA)
• Prescription Drugs: A Vital Component of Health Care (Center on an Aging Society, Georgetown Univ.)
• California Seniors and Prescription Drugs (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Overview of the Hatch-Waxman Amendments (Families USA)
• The Drug Industry (Families USA)