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Card gets you 20% off some CPK items Free fish Tacos on Tuesday Free Slurpees on 7/11 Free food — if you dress like a cow Station offering 99 cent gas Free food at Wienerschnitzel Free family friendly movies! Free hot dogs at Hot Dog on a Stick Mother's (and Father's) Day deals at CALM Free pick-me-ups courtesy of McD's March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 December 09 January 10 February 10 What questions should we pose? Do you know a deal we should share? Tell us. Growth and Economy Team leader: Christine Peterson, cpeterson@bakersfield.com, 395-7418 Assistant team leader: John Cox, jcox@bakersfield.com, 395-7345
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More prescription drug deals
This week's Longs Drugs ad says the store is now selling 90-day supplies of some generic prescriptions for $12.95, and 30-day supplies of some meds for $9.85. Here's what they say, "If you have little or no prescripton coverage, the free Longs Wellness Partnership Card may be right for you. Use the card on medications for which you have no prescription drug coverage or for which you have not met your deductible." Of course, there are rules and exceptions in fine print. Read more about the plan here in the store's weekly ad. Just type in your ZIP code. — Christine Peterson
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posted by
adampayne
on May 15, 2008 at 01:19 PM
The time has come for Americans to wise up and demand an end to endless patent rights given to pharmaceutical companies. The idea that drug patents can be indefinitely extended into perpetuity flies in the face of sound health policies and competition with innovation in the marketplace. I always chuckle when I hear people talk about "free" markets and unrestricted capitalism. What the world gets in our "free market" world of today is a gamed economic reality where little innovation takes place and you cannot find competition if you looked for it. Allow a patent life on a drug for five years before generics can enter into the market place. This gives plenty of time to recoup the costs on new drugs, which are always sold at astronomical prices when introduced. The argument that so much money is spent on research and development does not hold water any longer in the face of advertising budgets that now dwarf actual drug development costs. All drug stores should be able to offer hundreds of low price drugs that cost next to nothing to manufacture and ship, but we need to work on the next generation of prohibitively priced medicines to make any impact on spiralingly high medical costs.
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