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Medicare Part D letting patients down when it comes to generic versions of MS drugs
« on: December 06, 2020, 09:17:06 pm »

MS drugs are among the drugs under discussion in this article, which points out that the increasing availability of generic forms of some pricey brand-name drugs actually may mean that Medicare beneficiaries will be paying more out of pocket for the generic form of a drug than for the brand-name variety. This article, "Broken Promises--How Medicare Part D Has Failed to Deliver Savings to Older Adults," is in the New England Journal of Medicine (December 5, 2020):


https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2027580?query=WB
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