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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (6729)	5/1/2009 3:29:11 PM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 42652

Would the "lower tier" health care be restricted to generic meds only? Probably so - except when a generic version is not available. The quality of generic meds generally seems good, they are subject to just about the same controls and requirements as their brand name equivalents. All hospitals today have standing rules for substituting meds for generics whenever possible, and they do it automatically, as a matter of policy. One thing that I noticed recently is that nursing homes refuse to accept patients who take expensive medications. They demand that people get switched to less expensive versions.