Americans Who Are Not Taking Advantage Of Lower- Cost Generic Prescriptions Are Wasting Their Hard-earned Money - AARP

"Americans who be not taking pre-eminence of lower-cost generic prescription are wasting their hard-earned swap," said John Rother, AARP Director of Public Policy. "As the cut rate continue to tighten, citizens involve to appearance within back up of cost-savings whatever opportunity. Ask your physician if a lower-cost generic pills could be an take over tending door. The brand-name pharmaceutical industry create heaps high-priced drugs, but commonly more expensive, brand-name drugs are not necessarily any more decisive than their generic "cousins" that you won't see ballyhoo against TV." Of the 185 generic drugs AARP studied in 2007, in man there be no rate change for 133 generic drugs. Forty-three generics drugs have price reduction wakeful to 69.5 percent, and just nine generic drugs had price increase. The generic drugs alongside the largest trip up in price are metformin (-9.5%) which treat diabetes, lisinopril (-54.2%) which treats glorious blood drive and mirtazapine (-49.8%) which treats reduction.

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The generic drug price searching be a slab of the AARP Public Policy Institute Watchdog phase. Earlier this year, Watchdog report on brand-name drug price and a third study from this series on specialty drugs will be released summer 2008. The definition of specialty prescription drugs for the role of this gossip is a prescription drug to be exact (1) administered via shot (not using okay as insulin); (2) hold a total prescription cost greater than $1,000 per prescription; or (3) has a total cost per morning of psychiatric abet greater than $33 per day.

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