WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- Protect Our Care issued the following news: * * * Protect Our Care Joins Public Citizen and Leading Health Care Advocates to Protect Medicare's Power to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices * * * With Medicare slated to begin negotiating lower prescription drug prices with big drug companies in the coming weeks, drug companies and their mega lobbying group allies are desperately suing the federal government in an effort to protect their profits by halting the popular program. I  more