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<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">John,</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The Alliance for Retired Americans is launching a campaign we think you'll be interested in. One common-sense way to save Seniors money without cutting Medicare benefits is to stop the prescription drug handout negotiated in Medicare Part D.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TPOjtH8aqBXV0sTMcvYG%2BTBlJ7t9CsMf">Join Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Rep Henry Waxman (D-CA) by demanding Congress stop allowing big drug companies to price gouge Medicare beneficiaries!</a></b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Thank you,</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Michael Phelan</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Social Security Works</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;">---------- Forwarded message ----------</span><br>
<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;">From: <b>The Alliance for Retired Americans</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;">Stop Big Pharma Price Gouging!<br>
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<div>Did you know that Americans pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? Did you know that since the creation of Medicare Part D, American taxpayers no longer pay the lowest government-negotiated prices for the drugs needed by low-income seniors and people with disabilities? <br>
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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QQ428YeZYJgRUZcGPh5pyTBlJ7t9CsMf" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);">There is a common sense solution to reduce these high drug costs and eliminate the excessive profits of big drug companies. Click here to tell Congress to support it!</a><br>
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) have introduced the Medicare Drug Savings Act, S. 740 in the U.S. Senate and H.R. 1588 in the U.S. House of Representatives, that would eliminate this special deal for brand-name drug manufacturers. This legislation would prevent the big drug companies from charging the federal government higher drug prices for low-income Medicare beneficiaries than they charge for Medicaid. The Medicare Drug Savings Act would save the federal government more than $141.2 billion over 10 years, money that helps all Medicare beneficiaries.<br>
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Currently, the federal government negotiates lower prices both for veterans and Medicaid beneficiaries. However, when low-income Medicaid beneficiaries were transferred to the Medicare program, price-gouging drug companies received a huge windfall, because they stopped offering the government the lowest, discounted rate.<br>
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