Pfizer Offering Medications to Laid Off

One of the biggest fears for Americans who lose their job is the loss of their medical insurance. Prescription medications can be very pricey and with no job to pay for them, health declines and then the necessary medical care becomes even more costly.

While this particular move by Pfizer may be looked at very cynically by some, it also may help many. The company, reportedly the world’s largest pharmaceutical, has said that it will make available “more than 70 of its prescription drugs, from Lipitor to Viagra, at no cost to unemployed, uninsured Americans, regardless of their prior income, who lost jobs since Jan. 1 and have been on the Pfizer drug for three months or more,” says an ABC article, Pfizer Offers Free Drugs After Lost Jobs .

Will other pharmaceutical companies do something similar?

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