“If you want to save money and save lives, the "switching" we need in the United States is a one from a focus on acute care to one on chronic care.â€
So begins a new op-ed in The Journal of Life Sciences.
The complete article can be found at:
http://www.tjols.com/article-289.html
To cut healthcare costs, we need to focus on early treatment of chronic conditions, rather than force patients to switch to generic alternatives that may not be equivalent to the medicines they are using.
The repercussions of choosing short-term thinking over long-term results, of short-term cost-based choices over patient-based care, of “me-too†medicines over the right medicine for the right patient at the right time—are pernicious to both the public purse as well as the public health.
So begins a new op-ed in The Journal of Life Sciences.
The complete article can be found at:
http://www.tjols.com/article-289.html
To cut healthcare costs, we need to focus on early treatment of chronic conditions, rather than force patients to switch to generic alternatives that may not be equivalent to the medicines they are using.
The repercussions of choosing short-term thinking over long-term results, of short-term cost-based choices over patient-based care, of “me-too†medicines over the right medicine for the right patient at the right time—are pernicious to both the public purse as well as the public health.