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Article: Pfizer offers free drugs to unemployed, uninsured
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- May 14, 2009
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Pfizer Inc. is unveiling a new program Thursday that will let people who have lost their jobs and health insurance keep taking some widely prescribed Pfizer medications _ for free, and for up to a year.
The world's biggest drugmaker will provide more than 70 of its prescription drugs, from Lipitor to Viagra, at no cost to unemployed, uninsured Americans, regardless of their prior income, who lost jobs since Jan. 1 and have been on the Pfizer drug for three months or more.
The announcement comes amid massive job losses caused by the recession and a campaign in Washington to rein in health care costs and extend coverage. The move could earn Pfizer some goodwill in that debate ...
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