Reducing drug costs is more than slashing prices

Forbes

8 January 2020 - Starting a fresh, new year with resolutions to improve our health and be smarter with our money is a time-honored American tradition. 

Keeping these resolutions is usually a matter of personal discipline. We can only blame ourselves for slipping, and getting back on track is up to us, too.

Unfortunately, that satisfying sense of self-reliance and clarity could disappear quickly for a lot of seniors taking medication to help with high cholesterol when they pick up their prescriptions in 2020. Many will be surprised to discover that their out-of-pocket costs for their PCSK9 inhibitor prescriptions are significantly higher than they were last year.

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