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High Co-Pays Keeping Chronically Ill From Their Meds
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 "Sometimes, doctors give patients free samples, and when they go to refill, that's not an inexpensive drug on Walmart's $4 list but a costly drug companies are trying to promote," added NCPA senior fellow Devon M. Herrick. "Patients who understand options can check for alternative drug treatments or ask if there are therapeutic options."
And another expert turned the focus to physicians.
"Overall, this [study] is more of a commentary about the delivery of primary care services, not cost-sharing," said Greg Scandlen, founder of the nonprofit advocacy group Consumers for Health Care Choices. "I'm just shocked that doctors are not paying attention to what their own patients are doing, that five years later, their patients are not taking the drugs prescribed."
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There's more on prescription drug costs at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Last updated 4/27/2009
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SOURCES: Matthew D. Solomon, M.D., Ph.D., medical resident, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif., and consultant, Rand Corp.; John C. Goodman, Ph.D., president and founder, National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas; Devon M. Herrick, Ph.D., senior fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas; Carol Pryor, policy director, The Access Project, Boston; Greg Scandlen, founder, Consumers for Health Care Choices, Washington, D.C.; April 27, 2009, Archives of Internal Medicine
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