Pennsylvania to Consider a Bill Allowing People to Get Extra Prescription Medicine

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Lawmakers Consider Y2K And Drugs - (HARRISBURG) -- Some state legislators want to make sure people have sufficient prescription drugs when the clock strikes 12 on December 31-st. Lawmakers will consider a bill next week that would allow people to get extra prescription medicine... to carry them through any Y-two-K problems involving pharmacies. Supporters of the measure say it will help ease the worries of many residents, especially senior citizens.

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-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), October 23, 1999.


From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

Maybe they'll even let you have two months, instead of the one month they'll pay for (three for mailorder), now.

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), October 23, 1999.


Hope PA gets it, it was voted down in Georgia.

-- Dian (bdp@accessunited.com), October 24, 1999.

would be nice all over- companies won't let people renew til the week or two before the script runs out.....of course no way they will guarantee they will have the drugs available. Our pharm is "short" for my kids prescriptions nine times out of ten without y2k- can only imagine what it will be like in Jan.....

-- farmer (hillsidefarm@drbs.com), October 25, 1999.

Yeah - a inner city Democratic women Senator refused to let it out of her committee in GA. Claimed it wasn't fair that "rich white folks in the suburbs would get to buy extra medicine" when the poor in the cities couldn't buy it.

Result? Passed overwhlemingly in the GA House, couldn't even get voted on in the Senate.

The GA insurance Commissioner (also Democratic, by the way!) merely did the same intent of the law by changing the medical insurance "rules", and included extra allowances anyway for the medicaid part of the funding.

By the way, two weeks later, that same Senator was arrested on several fraud counts of handing in bad expense accounts, false reimbursements to her own travel company for state travel, and three other felonies.

Figures, doesn't it?

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), October 25, 1999.



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