Wed, 26 Mar 2008

Free drug samples may burden patients' pockets

I wonder if it ever occurred to these boneheads that a principal reason for the results of this study is that patients that were given free samples were just give new prescriptions as well - and their costs would've gone up anyway, free samples or not?

If it weren't for samples from doctors, my mother would probably be living in a cardboard box under a bridge now.

Following free drug sample receipt, patients who receive these samples have significantly higher out-of-pocket prescription costs than those who don't, according to the first study to look at the out-of-pocket cost associated with free-sample use.

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On 3/26/2008 11:04:47
kathryn wrote

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