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Taking charge of prescription drug costs.
Prescription drug costs have risen dramatically over the last several years, gobbling up an increasingly larger percentage of state and local government budgets. In Ohio, a group of school districts formed the Employee Benefits Cooperative to minimize these costs through group purchasing. The program success to date offers a ray of hope to other governments.
As sagging revenues and increasing demand for things like security and Medic aid continue to squeeze state and local government budgets, reducing the costs (or at least slowing increases) of prescription drug coverage has become more important than ever. Thanks to skyrocketing health care costs--prescription ...
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