Bloomberg (3/19, Tanzi) reports more than one third of adults in the US between the ages of 18 and 64 who did not have health insurance “did not take their prescription medication as prescribed in the past 12 months in order to reduce costs, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” Furthermore, about one fifth of all US adults “asked their doctor for alternative medication to lower the cost.”
Additional coverage is provided by CNN (3/19, Luhby), Fortune (3/19, Sherman), FierceHealthcare (3/19, Landi), and The Hill (3/19, Sullivan).
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— “One in Five U.S. Adults Ask Doctor for Lower Cost Medication, “Alexandre Tanzi, Bloomberg, March 19, 2019