1.   Further, many stores already offer seniors drug discounts.

2.   He said health maintenance organizations and other managed care insurers might have eased their demands for drug discounts after the collapse of proposals in Washington to regulate insurance premiums.

3.   However, Raymond said the HMO does not pass on all the savings from its drug discounts because it uses those savings to subsidize losses on more expensive drugs.

4.   In theory, each insurer would negotiate with drug companies to obtain drug price discounts comparable to those now secured by large purchasers like hospitals and HMOs.

5.   Legislative efforts are under way in Massachusetts and Vermont to give state government the ability to negotiate drug discounts.

6.   Legislative efforts are underway in Massachusetts and Vermont to give state government the ability to negotiate drug discounts.

7.   Proposals have ranged from drug discounts to adding people to state-subsidized programs.

8.   That program would use Medicaid, established for low-income people, to obtain drug discounts for those who are not on Medicaid but participate in Maine Rx.

9.   Within two weeks, the officials said, the Bush administration will formally propose a new plan to endorse and regulate drug discount cards issued to Medicare beneficiaries.

10.   And just as frightening is the prospect of activists for other diseases using the AIDS drug discounts to pry similar concessions.