Community Pharmacists Launch Campaign
The $ 250,000 campaign to prevent the reduction in pharmacy reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid; allow small pharmacies to unite and negotiate prices directly with the federal government, and prevent the mandates would require that people enrolled in government-sponsored health coverage programs to use the mail-order pharmacies. Customers were enrolled by the pharmacists at the counter or through leaflets in prescription bags. The NCPA also have television commercials featuring a local pharmacy of each market and place ads on different consumer health information Web sites and a dedicated website, Fight4Rx.com, increase the number of other members.
NCPA Camooso spokeswoman Lisa Miller said that because all participants opting for the campaign, they are more likely to contact members of Congress and other legislators when they are asked. She said: “In the major districts, we will ensure that we have a critical mass of patients so that these members of Congress how the people who care about health care in their districts feel about health in the care debate in Washington “(frates, The Politico, 2 / 17).