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  • CA: Prescription drug measures already facing off (Prop 78 and Prop 79)

    09/30/2005 4:10:47 PM PDT · by calcowgirl · 52 replies · 633+ views
    Contra Costa Times ^ | Sep. 25, 2005 | David L. Beck
    It's not even October yet, and already the barrage of advertising for two competing drug discount measures on the Nov. 8 ballot has begun. In a widely screened television commercial, a white-haired "Marcus Welby" hands out pieces of paper -- presumably prescriptions approved for a discount -- with a kindly smile. This is supposed to be life under Proposition 78, a drug discount plan backed by the pharmaceutical industry and endorsed Friday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Cut to: Snarling bureaucrat stamping REJECT on prescription-size pieces of paper. This, according to the same ad, would be life under Proposition 79, a...