41.   Some drug companies, including Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, are already offering discount cards to the elderly, promising to cut prices on medicines they manufacture.

42.   Still, in the bricks-and-mortar world, shoppers can refuse to use store discount cards and pay cash to preserve their privacy.

43.   The bills brush aside industry assurances that the discount cards are harmless successors to previous supermarket promotional gimmicks like green stamps and coupons.

44.   The Bush administration wanted to promote drug discount cards, but a lawsuit by drugstore owners blocked the program.

45.   The drug discount cards are a big political gamble for Bush.

46.   The idea of discount drug cards may well be a highlight of the White House event Thursday.

47.   The Medicare agency, which can barely perform all its existing responsibilities, will face immense challenges in supervising the drug discount cards.

48.   The president said Monday he will renew his call for a prescription discount card administered by private companies but regulated by Medicare.

49.   The plan called for Medicare to give its seal of approval to a number of private discount cards that would be marketed by prescription drug benefit management companies.

50.   There are other mechanisms intended to prevent fraud by the elderly, students or MTA employees, all eligible for discount cards.