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Effects of Using Generic Drugs on Medicare's Prescription Drug Spending

Julie Ann Somers

出版	Congress of the U.S., Congressional Budget Office, 2010
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lw_KvAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) assess how successful plans have been in encouraging the use of generic drugs and how much additional savings could arise from the wider use of such drugs. Over the next several years, entities that pay for prescription drugs will benefit from a wave of brand-name drugs in high-priced therapeutic classes losing patent protection which will allow generic drugs to enter those markets for the first time. If the current rate of generic substitution is maintained, first-time generic entry occurring through 2012 will generate about $14 billion in additional savings from generic substitution ...