9/11/08

Medicare beneficiaries who must buy their own outpatient drugs are charged twice as much on average as the VA and large HMOs. Five medications and the mark-up individual seniors pay: Knoll Synthroid 1446%, Micronase 363%, Zocor 144%, Ticlid 111%, Norvasc 93% (Public Citizen Fact Sheet "Why Medicare Doesn't Cover Prescription Drugs," 2002). ................
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