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Article: Supreme Court hears arguments on state drug plans.
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- Drug Week
- Article date:
- February 14, 2003
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2003 FEB 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- One state should not be allowed to force drug companies to lower prices for its residents and stick the rest of the nation with the bill, a lawyer for the industry argued January 22, 2003, before the Supreme Court.
An experimental program in Maine would use the buying power of the state under the federal Medicaid law to win lower drug prices for the working poor, retirees, and others who do not receive health coverage or drug benefits through their jobs.
State officials have said the program simply does for one state what other countries have done for all their citizens - force the drug companies to bargain. ...