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BANGOR - Eastern Mainers traveled miles Wednesday to seek assistance from the "Help is Here Express," a tour bus sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry offering relief from high drug prices for low-income people.
Many who made the trip to Bangor came away with a promise of assistance. But a Maine lawmaker and spokeswoman for a national organization that works to reduce drug prices for all consumers contended that the bus tour amounts to little more than a marketing strategy for the highly profitable drug industry.See the full content of this document
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Bus Tour Offers Help with Rx Drugs
"It's really just about improving the image of the drug companies," said Rep. Sharon Treat, D-Hallowell and executive director of the National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug Prices. A drug industry spokesman disputed her assertion.
About 50 people lined up in the chilly mornin...See the full content of this document
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