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Big Pharma Games the Insurers
By artappraiser on Mon, 01/03/2011 - 12:21am |Coupons for Patients, but Higher Bills for Insurers
By Andrew Pollack, New York Times Business, January 2, 2011
Describes a new scheme wherein the drug companies give discount coupons for brand name drugs to insured patients, so they can get brand name drugs for a similar co-pay as with generics, while still billing the insurer the much higher amount. Think the insurers are just going to eat that? Think again. Sigh.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/business/02coupon.html?ref=todayspaper
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