"In 1999, doctors prescribed 146 drugs for every 100 visits, compared with 109 drugs per 100 visits in 1985."
National Institute for Health Care Management, Prescription Drug Expenditures in 2001, Washington, DC: Author, 2002
"The average person had 10.3 prescriptions filled in 2000, compared with 8.3 five years earlier."
Shactman, D., Altman, S., Doonan, M., McNeill, D., & Rosman, B., “Can Health Care Spending be Contained?” (Policy Brief), Waltham, MA: Council of Health Care Economics and Policy, 2002
"The average price of a prescription from a retail pharmacy rose 10 percent in 2001, climbing to $49.84, from $45.27 the year before."
National Institute for Health Care Management, 2002
"Some 42 percent of uninsured adults who needed medications for high blood pressure were not taking them, compared with 25 percent of insured adults."
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, 2002
"Medicare beneficiaries with drug coverage used an average of 24 prescriptions in 1998, compared with 17 for Medicare beneficiaries without coverage. Beneficiaries in poor health who had drug coverage used 42 medications, compared with 27 for uninsured people in poor health who lacked drug coverage."
Jaeger, K., “Drug Pricing & Customer Costs,” Generic Pharmaceuticals: Marketplace Access and Consumer Issues, Testimony presented to the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation from the U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, 4/2002.
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