Hundreds of Savannah residents showed up today for help receiving free or low cost drugs from a pharmeceutical company bus.
Venetia Franklin is unemployed, uninsured, sick and now tearfully grateful for the help she received from the big orange bus armed with drug industry reps signing people up for free and low-cost drugs.
"I have one-prescription that's about 2-hundred-dollars a month just for 30-pills," Franklin says. "I'm trying to see if I can get some help."
Drug makers started the Partnership for Prescription Assistance two years ago amid criticism that they weren't doing enough to make medicines available to the poor. At today's event, its spokesman, talk show host and M.S. patient Montell Williams, said lawsuits, not drug companies, are responsible for the high cost of drugs.
"I'm not saying that's the only reason, but if we want the government to do something, why don't we step up to the plate and do something?" Williams said.
The P.P.A. bus also stopped this week in Bainbridge, Alma, Jesup and Moultrie. The program has served almost 200,000 Georgia residents.
Venetia Franklin is unemployed, uninsured, sick and now tearfully grateful for the help she received from the big orange bus armed with drug industry reps signing people up for free and low-cost drugs.
"I have one-prescription that's about 2-hundred-dollars a month just for 30-pills," Franklin says. "I'm trying to see if I can get some help."
Drug makers started the Partnership for Prescription Assistance two years ago amid criticism that they weren't doing enough to make medicines available to the poor. At today's event, its spokesman, talk show host and M.S. patient Montell Williams, said lawsuits, not drug companies, are responsible for the high cost of drugs.
"I'm not saying that's the only reason, but if we want the government to do something, why don't we step up to the plate and do something?" Williams said.
The P.P.A. bus also stopped this week in Bainbridge, Alma, Jesup and Moultrie. The program has served almost 200,000 Georgia residents.
