And yet even though choice and quality decline, Medicaid spending on prescription drugs has exploded.
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Japan spends 28% of its health care budget on prescription drugs, to the U.S. 9%.
PBMs advise employers and health maintenance organizations how to save money on prescription drug costs.
Bags used only for pharmacy medicines or items sold on prescription are also exempt.
Representative Marion Berry (D-Ark.) has a bill to impose federal price controls on prescription drugs through Medicare.
We had bipartisan support, but we didn't have the leadership of the Congress's support on prescription drugs.
Farm work is being offered on prescription in a trial aimed at helping patients with their rehabilitation.
One proposal that refuses to die would impose price controls on prescription drugs in the Medicare Part D program.
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It is currently only available on prescription from GPs, family planning clinics and some hospital accident and emergency departments.
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In effect, they want the government to impose price controls on prescription drugs.
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Like so many others, this book is longer on diagnosis than on prescription.
Mr Brownlee was leading a debate on prescription charges on 18 November 2010.
Del Vecchio isn't banking just on prescription glasses, not with so many people opting for contact lenses or corrective surgery.
Del Vecchio isn't just banking on prescription glasses, not with so many folks opting for contact lenses and corrective surgery.
Mr. Obama has said he is strengthening Medicare by bringing down the government's costs and by saving seniors money on prescription drugs.
At decision time Mr Brownlee's amended motion, which called on the Scottish government to reconsider its position on prescription charges, was passed.
But Newsnight has contacted five trusts which say they have not passed on the guidelines, and that cakes and biscuits are still available on prescription.
Since then the bread, which you get on prescription, has improved a bit but I still toast it to make it more palatable.
Once approved, they could be embedded both in the inks used on prescription bottles, and the pills inside, to confirm they are genuine.
In my case that amount will cover deductibles on prescription drugs and one crown replacement at the dentist (which I seem to require regularly).
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Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, deaths caused by accidental overdoses on prescription drugs increased from 588 statewide in 2006 to 735 statewide in 2010.
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In just a few years, the government could account for about half the money spent on prescription medicines in the U.S., and it may look to lower prices.
One of those priorities includes taking on prescription drug abuse.
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Moreover, insurance companies have raised the co-pays on prescription antihistamines since Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ) began selling its Claritin over the counter.
He is currently advising on behalf of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, on a National Books On Prescription Scheme, to be rolled out across UK public libraries this year.
They are expected to benefit from the aging of a population ever more reliant on prescription drugs, as well as wider availability of advanced medicines and health insurance coverage.
Now, the same thing is true on prescription drugs.
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Dr. Wolf says California in 2012 began requiring a label on prescription drugs similar to the one the researchers tested, and there is a push in New York to make similar changes.
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As part of the tentative agreement on prescription drugs, individuals would be allowed to personally import drugs that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration if the drugs are prescribed for personal use.
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Tennessee is the first state to track the number of babies born dependent on prescription drugs, said Stephen W. Patrick, a neonatologist at the University of Michigan and one of the authors of the study.
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