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Prescription drug companies often work with local primary care physicians in the provision of samples. How is this an effective method for the consumer who is on Medicare? |
Normally, drug companies try to provide sample medicine that could be prescribed to the patients who come to them no matter whether they are on Medicare or not. This is because not all the medicines would work with all the patients and this would mean that the drug companies would keep developing new medicines and the physicians would keep trying different company medicines on those patients to whom the already existing medicines do not work. However, when the existing medicines do not work on the Medicare patients, physicians should try another company’s medicine to check whether cures them. Thus, as long as it helps and cures the patients, physicians can try them.
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