Medicare Fee-for-Service Tool
The Alliance for Health Reform is offering an online booklet that contains links to resources describing the basics of Medicare private fee-for-service plans, advantages and incentives of the plans, and difficulties encountered by beneficiaries. To download the booklet, visit
www.allhealth.org/publications/Medicare/Medicare_Private_Fee-for-Service_Plans_65.pdf
Free RX Savings Card
The Together Rx Access Card is a free prescription savings card for legal residents of the United States who are not eligible for Medicare, do not have prescription drug coverage, and meet certain household income levels. Most card holders will save 25%–40% on more than 300 brand-name prescription products. Savings also are available on a range of generic products. For more information on the card, which is sponsored by a group of pharmaceutical companies, visit
Prescription Assistance Fact Sheet
The National Council on Patient Information and Education is distributing a fact sheet to advise consumers who lack health insurance or prescription drug coverage about prescription assistance programs and prescription savings/discount programs that can help them to obtain the medications they need. For more information, read the fact sheet at