In countries where patients must pay a part of their medical expenses, such as Japan, those who require expensive medications incur an enormous financial burden.
Medicaid recipients and their doctors must obtain permission from the state to use more expensive medications.
But sometimes, the newer, more expensive medications do not work better than older, cheaper ones.
Another goal of intermittent therapy is to reduce the cost of the expensive medications.
For example, the price of medication impacts on its efficacy, with more expensive medications being more efficacious than cheaper ones.
As he fiddled, I made a mental list of the various expensive medications I'd used over recent months.
It is true that many such people living on fixed incomes eat poorly because they cannot afford to do otherwise -- especially if they are taking expensive medications.
"You would have to be a major, major user of very expensive medications to get any kind of halfway decent benefit".
If I don't sign up and for some reason need expensive medications after next May, I'll be zapped with a humongous monthly premium with a more ridiculous deductible.
"That's because we reduce the number of expensive medications and treatments that are needed for the health conditions associated with obesity," she said.
