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Michigan Retailers Free Rx Card Can Help Seniors
| Source: Michigan Retailers Association
LANSING, MI--(Marketwire - June 24, 2009) - A free card from the Michigan Retailers
Association can lift some of the weight of concern and worry for seniors
buying expensive prescription drugs.
Michigan Retailers Association (MRA) today is distributing information
about its Michigan Retailers Free Rx Card discount prescription drug
program to the more than 500 concerned seniors and advocates participating
in Older Michiganians Day at the state Capitol.
Michigan Retailers offers the discount program free of charge to members
and nonmembers. It provides an easy way for individuals without health
insurance or without prescription drug coverage to save 20-75 percent when
buying prescription medications.
The card can be used by anyone, not just seniors. But the card also helps
seniors who are enrolled in the government's Medicare Part D prescription
program.
When these individuals find themselves struggling in the "donut hole" --
the gap between the prescription drug expenses Medicare D covers -- the Rx
card may be used to obtain a discount. Medicare D covers seniors' first
$2,700 in drug expenses but not the next $1,650, as coverage doesn't resume
until an individual has spent $4,350.
"The Rx card can be an important benefit for people in the donut hole
because they are without any prescription coverage," explained James P.
Hallan, MRA president and CEO.
"Prescription drugs can be pricey, whether you have insurance or not,"
Hallan added. "Anyone without prescription coverage can benefit from the
card, as well as people whose insurance fails to cover a specific
prescription."
More than 50,000 pharmacies across the nation accept the Rx card, making
the discounts easily accessible for individuals.
To learn more about the Rx card, including local participating pharmacies
and how to download the card for free, visit MRA's website at
www.retailers.com or call 800.366.3699.