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A good video about a Canadian couple's experience w/single payer healthcare
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<blockquote data-quote="Mark K 2" data-source="post: 881035" data-attributes="member: 55685"><p>That's called therapeutic interchange and it's not new. Hospital pharmacies have been doing it for years. The doctor writes an order for an expensive, new drug (because some drug rep offered him a trip to Hawaii if he wrote 100 prescriptions for it in a week). However, an existing drug does just as well and costs 90% less. The pharmacy will send up the cheaper drug.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I've been a nurse for nearly 20 years and have first-hand experience with therapeutic exchange. It works and there's nothing wrong with it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The problem are laypeople thinking they know more than healthcare professionals regarding stuff like this and stigmatizing things they don't understand. What's worse are politicians and news organizations scaring the sh!t out of people by making a big deal out of nothing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>With my doc's permission, I do therapeutic interchange on my own meds all the time. Why should I pay $87 for Nasonex nasal spray when the generic version of Flonase for $7 does just as well? Why should I take Keflex for an absessed tooth at $7 a capsule when clindamicin at 30 cents a capsule will do just fine?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark K 2, post: 881035, member: 55685"] That's called therapeutic interchange and it's not new. Hospital pharmacies have been doing it for years. The doctor writes an order for an expensive, new drug (because some drug rep offered him a trip to Hawaii if he wrote 100 prescriptions for it in a week). However, an existing drug does just as well and costs 90% less. The pharmacy will send up the cheaper drug. I've been a nurse for nearly 20 years and have first-hand experience with therapeutic exchange. It works and there's nothing wrong with it. The problem are laypeople thinking they know more than healthcare professionals regarding stuff like this and stigmatizing things they don't understand. What's worse are politicians and news organizations scaring the sh!t out of people by making a big deal out of nothing. With my doc's permission, I do therapeutic interchange on my own meds all the time. Why should I pay $87 for Nasonex nasal spray when the generic version of Flonase for $7 does just as well? Why should I take Keflex for an absessed tooth at $7 a capsule when clindamicin at 30 cents a capsule will do just fine? [/QUOTE]
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