Friday, February 24, 20061
The easy way for Medicare to save money. Put more effort getting generics onto the market faster:
The Bush administration has proposed no increase in the office's budget of $28 million for 2007, even though the number of generic drug applications more than doubled in the past five years, to 777 last year from 320 in 2001.
The agency now has a backlog of 850 applications for generic drugs, more than twice that of 2002.
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Mike10613
I'm English. In the U.K. some years ago, doctors were required to write prescriptions using generic names as opposed to trade names. The National Health Service subsidises many prescriptions and this measure saved money. I don't fully understand your post - but I assume you want more generic drugs available in the US to save money as we have here. I had an email from that well known publication the Lancet a while ago. The editor thought chronic illness should be given a higher priority. I had to think about that one. But if you have an illness or injury that can be fixed quick (and so you can return to work) you seem to get a higher priority. This seems to apply the world over.
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