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:: Thursday, October 07, 2004 ::
Sky-high drug prices create unlikely outlaws By CHRISTOPHER CAREY, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The retired steelworker suffers from asbestosis and other ailments that rob him of breath and sap his strength.
He lost his health insurance when his former employer, LTV Corp. of Cleveland, went bankrupt and the company that bought its assets refused to pick up coverage for retirees.
The only way Miller, 66, can afford the drugs he needs is to cross the border into Canada, where government price controls and a favorable monetary exchange rate mean that some medicines cost half as much as they do in his Ohio hometown.------------------------------------------- posted 7:01 AM :: reference link ::
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