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2008-06-24
With the end of the ILGA’s legislative session comes another year that has passed in which lawmakers failed to fix our health-care crisis.
2008-04-16
After months of hard work by Illinois PIRG’s Health Care Advocate, on Wednesday, April 16 the House of Representatives passed the Premium and Loss Data Reporting Act, HB 5865.
2006-07-11
CHICAGO—Uninsured consumers in Chicago pay 51 percent more for common prescription drugs than what the drug companies charge the federal government, according to a new Illinois Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) report released today.
2006-05-03
CHICAGO—Over the last five years, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent prescription drug companies 170 enforcement letters criticizing “false” or “misleading” advertising that omitted or minimized risks, promoted unproven uses, and made other deceptive claims to both doctors and consumers.