On the same subject, it also amazes me to watch someone with health insurance co-pay amounts pay their $10.00 or $15.00 co-pay on drugs that can be had for $4.00 at select retailers which I link to on this page...even cheaper than a co-pay amount...take advantage of those generics and for almost everything else there is a co-pay...BD
According to a new report released by AARP, manufacturer prices of 185
widely used generic drugs in Medicare Part D decreased by an average of 9.6 percent in 2007. A report from AARP earlier this year showed that manufacturer prices of 220 of the most commonly used brand-name drugs by Part D enrollees increased by more than seven percent during the same period.
Of the 185 generic drugs AARP studied in 2007, there were no price changes for 133 generic drugs. Forty-three generics drugs had price reductions up to 69.5 percent, and only nine generic drugs had price increases. The generic drugs with the largest decrease in price are metformin (-9.5%) which treats diabetes, lisinopril (-54.2%) which treats high blood pressure and mirtazapine (-49.8%) which treats depression.
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