Quotes about Prescription Drug costs from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "Medicare does not pay for most prescription drug costs; however, its expenditures for drugs are significant. In 2003, it spent over $10.5 billion on pharmaceuticals for the elderly.71 AARP,72 an advocacy group for the elderly, issued a report that analyzed drug prices for 197 of the medications most often used by patients over 65 years of age. It found that there was an overall increase of 3.4% in the first three months of 2004. It confirmed the fact that the drug-price increases are out pacing inflation by more than two-fold. Even the rate of increase is increasing."- Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "FACT: Efforts to control prescription drug costs have not been successful. FACT: The projected drug savings costs, if any, for Medicare Part D are unknown. 79 Source: information contained in the report "Enough to Make Your Sick: Prescription Drug Prices for the Elderly" from Families USA 80 http://www.therubins.com/geninfo/eldpresc.htm VIAGRA, CONTINUED So far we just discussed the money. But we didn't talk about the side effects of all those drugs. So let's pick out just a few examples. And let us continue with our ' Viagra Story' originally designed for the elderly." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
 "An article published in Health Affairs in February 2004 shows that once coverage for prescription drugs for Medicare patients becomes effective, prescription drug costs are likely to increase even more than predicted. The study found that use of Celebrex and Vioxx more than doubles when senior citizens have insurance that covers at least 75 percent of the cost of prescription drugs. (The Medicare prescription drug bill will provide 75 percent coverage."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
 "Patients and the nation's medical system would have saved billions of dollars in prescription drug costs if it had not been for the magical power of Forest's corporate science, which had turned three failed studies into a blockbuster of a success.
Nothing made it clearer that marketers had invaded medical science than when the global advertising agencies on Madison Avenue decided to jump into the work of performing drug experiments on humans."- Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "The sales reps and the companies that employed them had hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues to protect. prescription drug costs were consuming more and more tax dollars in Iowa and every state in the country, a trend the pharmaceutical companies were working hard to extend. The year 2003 marked the first time that states spent more to pay the medical bills of the poor and the disabled covered by Medicaid than they spent on elementary and secondary education." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "We casually accept the highest prescription drug costs in the world. We passively accept the increase in our health insurance premiums and simultaneous reduction in services. We put our faith and trust in the physicians and specialists who treat us, assuming that they are current on the latest techniques and trends for optimal health, and up to date on the latest drug interactions and recalls.
One doesn't have to look far to find a close relative, friend, coworker, or acquaintance struck by a major illness. With more than $1.3 trillion spent annually, shouldn't we all be models of health?"- David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "Not allowed to negotiate discounts to lower prescription drug costs? Yep, that's right. So what did Billy Tauzin do after he resigned from Congress, only days after the bill was made into law by one vote in the dark of night under questionable circumstances? He took a $2-million-a-year job as president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the chief lobby for brand-name drug companies. Could be just us, but that doesn't seem right by any standard. Sadly, such corruption is commonplace." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) |
 "That's when you will pay 100 percent of your prescription drug costs until you have kicked in an additional $2,850. Once your total yearly drug costs reach $5,100, the government steps in again and pays 95 percent of your bills. Then it starts all over again the following year.
The problem is that the donut hole is huge. Millions of Americans will discover that between their premiums and their monthly drug bills, they won't be able to make ends meet."- Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) |
 "Well, the first part certainly is. prescription drug costs are indeed high—and rising fast. Americans now spend a staggering $200 billion a year on prescription drugs, and that figure is growing at about 12 percent a year (down from a high of 18 percent in 1999).1 Drugs are the fastest-growing part of the health care bill—which itself is rising at an alarming rate."- Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.) "Since prescription drug costs are rising so fast, payers are particularly eager to get out from under them by shifting costs to individuals. The result is that more people have to pay a greater fraction of their drug bills out of pocket. And that packs a wallop. Many of them simply can't do it. They trade off drugs against home heating or food. Some people try to string out their drugs by taking them less often than prescribed, or sharing them with a spouse." - Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.) |
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