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The Choice: Health Care for People or Drug Industry Profits
Publication Date: September 2005
Publisher(s): Families USA
Author(s): Dee Mahan
Topic: Health (Health services for older people)
Manufacturing and industry (Pharmaceutical industry)
Type: Report
Abstract:
This report examines drug industry profits and spending patterns to determine if Medicaid payments to drug companies could be reduced without harming either Medicaid enrollees' access to medications or the drug companies' ability to conduct necessary research and development.