Second of a series
If you want to save on your prescriptions, you have to first know the games drug firms and retailers play.
Rule number 2, according to Consumer Reports “on Health” is that once a drug goes off patent and others can produce generic versions, drug companies will create a slightly different version to keep collecting the high prices.
They might make a dis-solvable tablet, or an extended release one and charge you five times what the original meds cost. So go for the generic version.
Consumer Reports says it used studies of almost 50 million prescriptions filled in the past five years to come up with its data.
And, make sure you get at least an on-line subscription to Consumer Reports and buy their Health newsletter. You can’t spend money more wisely.
Click here to read Part 1.
