Free prescription meds may cost you more later

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By Nicole Boone
WBTW News13 Anchor
Published: September 8, 2008

Doctors who hand out drug companies’ free samples to uninsured patients may actually be costing their patients more money in the long-run.

A new study’s found doctors tend to continue patients on the more expensive brand-name drug, rather than switch them over to a cheaper generic later on.

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