Experienced physicians know that patients who don't fill their prescriptions or don't take their medicines as prescribed (often because they can't afford them), are the ones who show up sick in the office or hospital for expensive emergency care and may go on to expensive extended nursing home stays. Now, that clinical experience is confirmed: Study Finds Savings From Medicare's Drug Plan Extend Beyond Cost of Meds.
Your actions can make a difference (see the recent reader's inquiry/comment to my blog about generic prices). Read the NIH report and send a copy of it to your Congressperson's office: urge your Congressperson to champion action which preserves access to Part D medicines through Medicare. Otherwise, as the prices of branded and generic Part D drugs rise, making those medicines unaffordable, America's Medicare health costs will rise.
Every politician counts heads: the number of voters who communicate with Congresspeople will affect the outcome.
The message is clear: Part D medicines save the United States money. Even more important, they keep seniors out of emergency rooms, hospitals and nursing homes, preserving their independence and quality of life.
Added July 27, 2011, 7:52 pm. Information on how the Federal Government and the pharmaceutical companies carry out their mutual functions. Click here.
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Henry, I think you didn't quite get the meaning of my comment to an earlier post. I said "How do you propose that Congress '...respond to constituent's needs, and not let "minor" generic price increases bankrupt this[senors -added to original] voting population'?" My question was looking for the kind of Congressional/presidential action that would permit minor [or major] generic drug price increases. LCB
the last statement of my previous comment was unclear: here's another stab at it.
What of Congressional/presidential action that would prevent minor [or major] generic drug price increases.
LCB
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