Pfizer to Offer Free Medication to Unemployed

  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Pfizer Inc. is unveiling a new program that
will let people who have lost their jobs and health insurance keep
taking some widely prescribed Pfizer medications - for free, and
for up to a year.
    Pfizer will provide more than 70 prescription drugs - from
Lipitor to Viagra - at no cost to unemployed, uninsured Americans.
    People who lost jobs since Jan. 1 and have been on Pfizer drugs
for three months or more are eligible.
    The announcement comes amid massive job losses caused by the
recession and should bring a Pfizer some goodwill, good publicity
and brand loyalty.
    The program, which starts today, was requested by a committee of
employees concerned about newly uninsured patients struggling to
buy their medicines.