* Dan Minette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> There are three levels of deductables for prescriptions. The first,
> and lowest, is for generic. It's $7.50 per month, or $15 for a mail
> order 3 month supply. The next is non-generic, at $25/month or $50
> per 3 months. The third is a restricted non-generic, usually a newer
> higher priced non-generic drug that treats a condition that can be
> treated by other drugs...it's $50/month. or $100 per 3 months.
Interesting. It sounds like a good idea, since it makes people pay more
for more expensive medicine, but still provides an affordable option.
> I see my own behavior influenced by this. I get migraines. I
> can spend 33 dollars a month on the newest drug that doesn't make
> me sleepy or an older drug that does. I'm doing a cost benefit
> analaysis, deciding which one makes more sense for me. It's very
> reasonable for my insurance company to faciltate my particiapation in
> the cost-benefit analysis. This is one place, I think, where your
> ideas on health care are being implemented.
This reminded of an article I just read. I don't have an online link,
but it is from _Consumer Reports On Health_ newsletter, March 2005.
Here's an excerpt:
"Daily doses of the dietary supplement coenzyme Q10, or CoQ10,
helped ward off migraine attacks in some people, in what is
apparently the first carefully controlled study of that use.
Swiss and Belgian researchers divided 42 people with recurrent
migraines into two equal groups. Half took 100 milligrams of CoQ10
three times a day for three months; the rest took a placebo. Ten of
those taking the supplement compared with only 3 taking a placebo had
at least a 50 percent reduction in monthly attacks...."
--
Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/
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