Hop on the Bus, Gus! (You Don’t Need to Discuss Much.)

By Dan Eldridge
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You may have seen a television commercial recently featuring Montel Williams, during which the former talk show host effusively tells viewers about a new health care organization offering extremely low-cost prescription medications to low-income earners and the uninsured. Funded by American pharmaceutical companies, this organization is known as the Partnership for Prescription Assistance, and for the past four years it has been dispatching a large orange tour bus, the "Help is Here Express", to thousands of cities in all 50 United States.

The bus is outfitted with computer stations and staffed by trained specialists, who simply search for a particular patient’s meds within a database of nearly 500 financial assistance programs. Yet as is the case with many government-funded grant schemes, very few patients are even aware that so many assistance opportunities exist for prescription medicine. And so aside from just passing out cheap or even free pills, the "Help is Here Express" is also meant to be something of an awareness raiser.

At any rate, those among you who happen to be currently suffering as a result of the criminal ineptitude and greed of the American health care industry will be pleased to learn that the possibility of relief – financial relief, that is – is coming to Philly. The PPA’s orange bus will be joining a health fair at the First African Baptist Church at 1600 Christian Street this Saturday, June 13, from 10 am to 3pm. Don’t forget to show up with a complete list of all your current meds. And for tons of useful information about how to save money on medicine, visit pparx.org, where it’s also possible to apply for help online.

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