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Ohio's Best Rx launched today; Taft appoints
OCSEA staff to council
Jan. 11, 2005 -
More than
a year ago, the Ohio General Assembly approved the passage of the labor-backed
Best Rx legislation (H.B. 311 and S. B. 138).
The Ohio AFL-CIO had joined with two dozen community
service and non-profit organizations to represent the uninsured
and seniors who need help with paying for medicine. The coalition achieved
its goal: Secure a maximum discount for the greatest
number of people who need it.
OCSEA members and other union activists
had signed petitions and sent emails urging
legislators to pass the bill, making prescription drugs more affordable
for the state's uninsured and elderly.
Marianne Steger, OCSEA's Director of
Health Care Policy and Human Resources, has been appointed by the governor
to sit on the Best Rx Program Council which plays an
oversight role.
"This program is important because even though
our members have health care, members of their families may not,"
Steger said. "And this program will provide reduced prescription
costs for them."
Media statewide covered the program's launch today,
acknowledging labor's role in its creation.
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Ohio's
Best Rx website
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program helps cut prescription drug costs; 70 percent of Ohio pharmacies
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Ohio
launches discount drug program
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