New YORK -- The winds of change have begun to fill the generic drug industry's sails. Driven by expiring patents on big-selling blockbuster drugs and the frantic search for lower-cost prescription alternatives by health plan payers, generic utilization rates have grown roughly
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For older folks enrolled in Medicare (and this writer is one) the news of late has been mostly bad. For example, Medicare's trustees estimate that out of pocket expenses for Medicare premiums, deductibles and co-pays will consume more than a third of our Social Security income by.
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