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Cost-Cutting on Drugs Has Health Cost
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 "This is a population that has a huge clinical benefit from having coverage of their prescriptions," she said. "If we cover their pharmacy benefits, we may find that we're actually saving a huge amount of money because we're preventing them from having heart attacks and disability and other problems downstream."
Dialogue between physicians and patients may also help alleviate the problem, she added.
"It's really important that patients not be embarrassed. Medication costs are overwhelming," Heisler said. "They should bring it up with their doctors, because doctors are not very proactive and clinicians need to be aware that a really significant percent of people have this problem."
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Medicare (www.medicare.gov ) has more on the prescription drug benefit. Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3
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Last updated 6/25/2004
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SOURCES: Michele Heisler, M.D., research scientist, Veterans Administration and lecturer in general medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor; Arlene S. Bierman, M.D., Ontario Women's Health Council Chair Women's Health, University of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto; July 2004 Medical Care
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