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      <description>The trio of bills would create the Prescription Drug Affordability Board and the Drug Affordability Stakeholder Council. The groups would work together to try and set upper payment limits, effectively capping the cost of medications.</description>
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      <description>Starting next year, the skies over Washtenaw County will be a bit busier: drones will be delivering packages of medicine, according to officials with Michigan Medicine.</description>
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      <description>A decade-old prescription disposal program has kept nearly four tons of medication off the street and out of the Great Lakes.</description>
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      <description>There was wide bipartisan agreement in the state House Wednesday that insulin and other lifesaving drugs cost too much. Republicans and Democrats voted…</description>
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