And then Suddenly, Drugs Were Cheap

The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics at Loyola University

And then Suddenly, Drugs Were Cheap

Sort of. Anyway they are going to be generic, about 75% of them, as they fall off of patent and get dopey new names - what in the world will they call the generic form of Zoloft, one wonders. The list is long: Ambien, Pravachol ...

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