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    • Patient Assistance Programs
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Pfizer Public Policy: Patient Assistance Programs

Pfizer invests heavily in research and development to discover new treatments that will alleviate suffering and give hope to patients around the world. But inventing medicines isn't enough if the people who need them can't get them. Pfizer believes that having a limited income should not limit access to medicines, so Pfizer is taking steps to improve access to prescription drugs.

Key Points

• Pfizer, along with other drug companies, supports the broadest access possible to medicines.
• Pfizer has established its own programs to help patients who need but cannot afford our drugs.
• Pfizer actively supported extending drug coverage to elderly and disabled Americans through the recently enacted Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act.

Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies have established special programs to help ensure that patients on limited incomes and those without insurance can obtain needed drugs. Pfizer Helpful Answers^® is a family of programs to help Americans without prescription coverage save on many Pfizer medicines, no matter their age or income. People with limited incomes may even qualify to get their Pfizer medicines for free. For more information, see Pfizer Helpful Answers^®.

Pfizer's programs build on health insurance programs available through state and federal governments. Many low-income Americans are eligible for health insurance coverage through the Medicaid program, administered by the states. The Medicaid program includes a drug benefit that offers prescription drugs at little-to-no cost. Most Americans over the age of 65, regardless of income, are eligible for Medicare, which now offers a prescription drug benefit.

Pfizer actively supported the Medicare Prescription Drug benefit which became law in 2003. Under the new Medicare law, Medicare beneficiaries will have all or part of their prescription drug costs covered by the government. Learn More About Medicare Drug Benefits.

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Government Programs

Learn more about government programs.

• Visit Government Programs

Related Information

More About Medicare Drug Benefits

Learn more about the new Medicare prescription drug benefit.

• Visit More About Medicare Drug Benefits

Patient Assistance Programs

For more than twenty years, Pfizer has maintained a commitment to making its medicines available to patients in need by donating its most advanced medicines to low-income, uninsured patients. Learn more about medicine donation programs around the world.

• Visit Enabling Global Access
• Visit U.S. Patient Assistance Programs

Last Updated September 2007

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