My wife, with Parkinson's disease, is the dreaded doughnut hole. A recent prescription would have cost us $565. I found I could fill the prescription through a licensed Canadian pharmacy for $49---from the same U.S. manufacturer! Mike

Seniors with Medicare still skip high priced heart drugs

posted Sat, 2 Apr 2011

A new study by the Mayo Clinic further illustrates the public health risk created by the outrageous price of prescription drugs.

Seniors with a history of heart failure were surveyed for the study. Almost half of the 209 patients said they had stopped taking their medication or had not filled a prescription because of cost. Also, even though 77 percent of patients in the study were eligible for Medicare, prescription drug prices were still a concern for some of them. Read more about the study.

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