LA City Hall------------------------------------- Merck's VIOXX®
LA Rx
Before recently being elected Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa was a member of the Los Angeles City Council. In that capacity, with help from the
Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR), he drafted and spearheaded the passage of the "LA Rx" program, designed to lower prescription drug costs to consumers by aggregating demand for these products into a massive "buying club" that could negotiate substantial discounts on prescription drugs for Los Angeles residents.
You can learn more about "limited modified monopsony," of which LA Rx is an example, and more about the program itself and about the FTCR's plans to enroll millions of non-Angelenos in LA Rx to make an even BIGGER buying club from the articles below.
9-1-05: Jerry Flanagan, consumer advocate at Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, talks about LA Rx, Propositions 78 and 79, and political corruption in Sacramento (California Politics Today™ #415)
5-9-05: LA-Rx program sets timetable for implementing bulk purchasing/drug discount card arrangements (Etopia Media Medical News Network #66)
5-6-05: Jerry Flanagan, consumer advocate at Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, talks about building consumer power through bulk purchasing (California Politics Today™ #344)
5-4-05: Los Angeles City Council adopts "LA Rx" plan for bulk pharmaceutical purchasing (Etopia Media Medical News Network #65)
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