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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Lane3 who wrote (4615)	2/19/2008 10:51:17 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) of 42652

Because doctors report using samples to benefit their poorer patients, I always assumed they were being truthful. I have never received any sample medications from a doctor. I am not what many people would call rich, nor poor. Last night it occurred to me what must be happening. Doctors probably do exactly what they report doing and what you report. They use samples to test patient's tolerance and give them disproportionately to their poorer patients. The problem with the research is that it includes people not in the beneficiary pool, people who are not patients of doctors' practices. As a result, it would require doctors or pharmaceutical companies to build a distribution system to deliver directly to people who use ERs and other medical delivery systems. I have seen ads on TV from pharma claiming they have such a system. It would be interesting to know to what extent it delivers drugs to the people who are unable to receive free samples because they don't visit doctors regularly.

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