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Analysis: Medicare Spent Billions More On Generic Drugs For Beneficiaries Than Costco Did On The Same DrugsRead about the biggest pharmaceutical developments and pricing stories from the past week in KHN s Prescription Drug Watch roundup.CNN:Costco Approach Could Have Saved Medicare $2.6 Billion In Drug Spending, Analysis Shows聽Medicare spent billions more money on generic drugs for its beneficiaries than warehouse chain Costco did for the same drugs, according to an analysis published Tuesday. This overspending hit $2.6 billion in 2018, Erin Trish, associate director of the University of Southern California s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, and colleagues wrote in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association s JAMA internal Medicine. Fox and Luhby, 7/6 Also 鈥擭ews And Sentinel:We
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Thursday, Jun 11 2009Editorials, Opinion Pieces Address Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit DeadlineSeveral newspapers recently published editorials and opinion pieces related to the May 15 enrollment de
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owala ca iciaries to enroll in the prescription drug program by the May 15 deadline, an Oklahoman editorial states. President Bush has so far rejected the idea of a deadline extension, and Medicare beneficiaries shouldn t expect the president to change his mind now, the editorial states Daily Oklahoman, 5/12 .Long Island Newsday: Deadlines are useful things, and it was essential that Medicare have one to move people to sign up for its prescription drug benefit, a Newsday editorial states. All but 5.7 million of the 42 million eligible Medicare beneficiaries have enrolled in the program, the editorial states, adding, Getting people
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