31.   The GOP plan envisions that Medicare beneficiaries would pay lower prescription drug costs because the insurance plans would be able to make deals for reduced prices.

32.   The House Republican plan, outlined last week, would use private insurance subsidized by the government to help pay prescription drug costs for people treated outside hospitals.

33.   The mass exodus from Medicare in Arizona and other states comes as Congress bandies about the political hot potato of rising prescription drug costs.

34.   Though HMO pullouts in rural areas and high prescription costs are national issues, rural Arizona is hit harder.

35.   Workers at pharmaceutical companies would gain because Bush is not likely to press the issue of rising prescription costs.

36.   Additionally, some people facing high prescription drug costs may qualify at higher income levels.

37.   But it said that applying the gap in the matter of prescription costs amounted to gender discrimination.

38.   But prescription drug costs continued to flare.

39.   Consumers seeking to save on prescription costs would be allowed to buy medicines from abroad by mail order under legislation the House passed Wednesday.

40.   Consumers seeking to save on prescription costs would be allowed to buy medicines from abroad by mail order under legislation the House approved Wednesday.