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[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

While we have millions of prescriptions getting filled, it is those prescriptions that are not being filled that are commanding our attention. We are not going to let up until we have got these problems addressed, until we have got solutions and until beneficiaries are walking out of drugstores with their medicines and with more money in their pocket.

Douglas O'brien

Many of them left in a hurry and either forgot their prescriptions or their prescriptions have run out. No one anticipated they were going to be stranded here this long or that they would be unable to get their medications (through prescription transfers).

Linda Todd

The retail pharmacies in this area were doing 600 to 700 prescriptions a day. So I knew that the business was there.

Randy Le

Supermarkets now sell gas, prescriptions and have sit-down restaurants. Everyone is competing with everyone else.

Ted Taft

It probably doesn't address most of the problems people are experiencing these first few days, which is getting in and getting their prescriptions. But it is another kind of help that we are making available to seniors.

Jon Sherwood

We're here because people need us. People at home who can't leave their house, we deliver their prescriptions. We have children who can't find specialty items anywhere else. We get them to them. These are the things, the driving force that keeps us in business.

John Noriega

People have been getting their drugs, and since the beginning of the program, millions of prescriptions are being filled.

Peter Ashkenaz

[The office is currently handling 14 open cases where a person was arrested for obtaining prescriptions by fraud. Charges have not been filed in six of the cases.] We are seeing more cases, ... I am not certain if this is due to the growing population or an increased abuse of prescription drugs.

Robin Green

Our hotline received hundreds and hundreds of phone calls from seniors who are being turned away and not able to fill their prescriptions. That's why we had to take immediate action.

Ann Kohler

Seniors appear to be filling incremental prescriptions, given additional drug coverage.

David Risinger

If a student or partner tests positive we also provide prescriptions for everything but HIV and AIDS.

Wendy Mcgonigal

This is not going to pay for all prescriptions.

Jack Kingston

Prescriptions going to consumers is like money going to consumers. The margin for error is zero.

Linda Pinney

With nearly two months of Prozac sales data available, the erosion in prescriptions is the most severe ever for a blockbuster product in our industry.

Sidney Taurel

I'm already enrolled in a plan. Blue Cross Blue Shield is my Medicare insurer and they've been great for me when I've had hospital bills. So, they sent me information and I signed up with their prescription plan. I get terrific coverage and a good discount. It costs me about $20 a month for my prescriptions.

Anthony Caruso

Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.

Jerry Frankhauser

There is really no health care available to these people, ... The people have no medicine, no prescriptions, no doctor to write them right now. I have been looking for ways to help and found that this is where I am needed.

John Everett

Patients can fax their prescription over to the UP pharmacy and we will be able to send the prescriptions to their homes for a small fee. With greater funds in the future, we plan to expand the BBC Health Clinic facility and provide a limited pharmacy operation there based on demand.

Richard Sands

For patients who have their Medicare prescription drug card from the insurance plan that they have signed up with or that they were assigned to, we are processing their prescriptions and filling them and they are seeing the benefit of the program.

Michael Polzin

The governor wants the pharmacies to fill prescriptions, if given valid prescriptions, and I think basically as an organization we have the same expectations, but to also insure the right of pharmacists and the right of the patients as well.

Mike Patton

Most of the prescriptions that come in are the acute. Johnny has a cold come down, they can come in and get the prescription and go home. Mail order is not going to bother that.

Warren Rolen

By and large, Medicaid will stop paying for prescriptions and the Medicare plan will take over.

Nancy Schmidt

One person not getting their drugs is one person too many. That's unacceptable. But with these latest corrective actions, we're pretty hopeful that all beneficiaries should get their prescriptions filled.

Jackie Garner

I think it gives customers something to do while they're waiting for their prescriptions to be filled.

Nick Spanos Jr

The market share for generics, which is already 54 percent [of prescriptions] should increase significantly.

Andrew Forman

These rising prices impact those that are forced to decide between heating their homes, buying prescriptions and skipping a meal.

Mark Wolfe

We want to make sure that women are getting their prescriptions filled in the stores that they go to.

Erin Matson

This means more pharmacists will refuse to fill basic birth control prescriptions here. They are promoting unintended pregnancy and in turn encouraging the very practice they detest.

Erin Matson