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The Motley Fool September 9, 2004 Charly Travers	The Case for Drug Stocks The reports of the drug industry's death are greatly exaggerated.
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The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Michael P. Cecil	Will Medicare Negotiate With Drug Companies? One of the bedrock principles of our economic system is that those buying more of a product receive a discount. Wouldn't empowering Medicare to save taxpayers' money be widely embraced as a great idea? But how would pharma investors see it?
The Motley Fool October 23, 2006 Brian Lawler	MGI's Anonymous Growth If there's a value stock in the pharma world, this may be it.
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Managed Care April 2004 John Carroll	$50M for Drug Comparisons Could Produce Valuable Results The Medicare amendment adopted late last year contains a provision that could help P&T committees, not to mention consumers, evaluate competing drugs.
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