Pfizer offers free prescription drugs for the jobless

Pfizer is offering free drugs, including Viagra and Lipitor, for those who have recently lost their jobs.

Pfizer is offering as much as a year of free medicine, such as the Lipitor cholesterol pill and Viagra for sexual dysfunction, to Americans who lost jobs and health insurance.

The program covers more than 70 medicines for people who can demonstrate unemployment since Jan. 1, have no drug insurance and were taking a Pfizer product for at least three months before the job loss, the New York-based drug maker said Thursday in a statement. Read more...