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About Us
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The goal of the FamilyWize® partnership is to reduce the cost of medicine for children, families and individuals by $100 million in five years. We believe that stronger, healthier and happier people make healthier, better communities and a stronger, gentler nation.
We deliver these savings by distributing free prescription drug discount cards. These cards are donated free of charge to the organizations and agencies helping to distribute the cards and to the people receiving the cards.
The FamilyWize community service partnership was established in 2005 by Dan and Susan Barnes in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania to reduce the cost of medicine for people who live and work in the Lehigh Valley. Other communities quickly heard about the program and started asking if they could get cards for their communities. Sadly, most families in the United States are in need of a FamilyWize card, either because they have no health insurance or they have to buy medicine that is not covered by their insurance, Medicaid or Medicare plans.
More than twenty five thousand community and faith-based organizations, county agencies, doctors, pharmacies, companies, and individuals across the country are now joined together in this partnership to distribute free FamilyWize prescription drug discount cards in their communities, reducing the cost of medicine for people in one out every four counties in the United States. More than 625 participating United Way agencies, America’s Promise Alliance Partners, and individual counties in all 50 states have volunteered to coordinate these distribution efforts. You can help too by telling and emailing your friends to let them know about this free resource, and asking them to email or tell their friends as well.
The savings on the cost of the medicine is provided by the more than 53,000 participating local pharmacies that have agreed voluntarily to accept prices for medications that are close to the prices they make available to large insurance companies and employers. All other program costs are provided by in-kind donations from the program sponsors and by part of the processing fee included in the cost of the medicine.
We hope you will join us in thanking your local pharmacies, the program sponsors, and the thousands of community and faith-based organizations, local and county agencies, physicians, companies and individual volunteers that have dedicated their time and resources to help make these FamilyWize cards available to those in need. Working together, we are making a difference, a $100 million difference.
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