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Drug cards no hot commodity.
Byline: JONATHAN MAZE
PHOTO: The Walgreens at Folly and Camp roads on James Island used this display to promote Medicare prescription discount cards.
Low-income seniors slow to sign up
for discount prescription programs
Pharmacist Mills Blake didn't expect a flood of questions about the new Medicare prescription drug discount card, but he expected a lot more than he received Tuesday.
The total number of queries he fielded during his shift: zero.
"We haven't been getting any questions or anything," said Blake, who works at Charles-ton's Tellis Pharmacy.
Seniors were able to start using the cards Tuesday, the first major test of the new federal Medicare law.
The government said Tuesday that 2.87 million seniors had signed up for the drug card as of the end of May. Only about a half-million…
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