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10/10/05
Dear MSS Members,
- As pharmaceutical representatives how many times during
the day or week do we give someone our company credit card
or a personal check to cover a company expense? My guess
is that most of us use our company credit card at least
once a day. At our October meeting, Larry Nance, one of
our MSS Board Members, shares his personal experience of
Identity Theft and "How to protect yourself from Identity
Theft.”
Topic: "How to protect yourself from
identity theft"
Speaker: Larry Nance, MSS Board Member,
Sanofi-Aventis Cardiovascular Specialty Rep.
Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Time: 12:00 Noon - 1:30 PM
Location: Prego's Ristorante, Hazard Center
- Time to renew your MSS membership for 2006 and recruit
your pharmaceutical colleagues. You can download a membership
application by logging onto our website www.medicalservicesociety.org
and clicking on the membership tab.
- Don’t forget to sign up online to participate on
the MSS team for the November 6, 2005 Susan B. Komen Race
for the Cure. www.active.com/donate/sdkomen/MSS
Walk, Run or Sleep In!
- There are some important issues facing
our industry that we can affect with our vote at the polls
on November 8. There are two competing prescription drug
access ballot initiatives in California that both aim to
provide assistance to low-income patients.
PhRMA supports Proposition 78 Cal Rx, which would establish
a market-based drug discount program in which manufacturers
would cooperate with the State of California to offer deep
discounts to families with incomes up to $58,000 annually.
This is good public policy that will provide real help for
low-income uninsured Californians.
PhRMA opposes Proposition 79, which could remove a manufacturer’s
drugs from the California Medi-Cal program if the company
does not agree to offer new state mandated prices to families
who make up to $77,000 per year. This could potentially
deny or restrict access to medications to the poor, aged,
blind and disabled patients that depend on Medi-Cal. It
would also require approval of the federal government, and
no administration has ever approved a program of this kind.
You can find more information about both of these initiatives
by visiting www.calrxnow.org.
I would like to ask all of the MSS members to take a moment
to visit the website www.calrxnow.org. You will see the position
that PhRMA takes on both of these propositions. You will
also see a link you can click on to view a list of organizations
that have signed up to support 78 and a list of organizations
that have signed up to oppose 79. It is important that we
thoroughly understand the issues on the upcoming ballot,
so that we can all make an informed decision when going
to the polls.
Sincerely,
Tom Spetter
Vice President, Medical Service Society
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