Bush Rx discount card
Executive Summary
House Small Business Committee is understood to have tentatively scheduled a hearing for mid-September on the effect President Bush's prescription drug discount card plan would have on pharmacies. During a July 25 Small Business Committee hearing on reducing regulatory burdens on small healthcare providers, Ranking Democrat Velazquez (N.Y.) asked Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Tom Scully to provide a report on the discount card's impact. National Community Pharmacists Association and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores filed for a preliminary court injunction against the program July 26 (1"The Pink Sheet" July 23, p. 5)