Senator Schumer during Finance Committee mark up:
"People have unique needs. I take Lipitor, they put me on the generic, Zocor, my cholesterol went up. They put me back on Lipitor, my cholesterol went down."
You mean that all statins aren't the same? That different people respond to different drugs in different ways. That generic substitution can have ... unintended consequences? Holy cow! And who is the mysterious "they" the Senator refers to? Probably not his Uncle Sam.
(PS, "Zocor" is not the "generic." Simvastatin is the generic. Not the same thing. But that's another story for another time.)
"People have unique needs. I take Lipitor, they put me on the generic, Zocor, my cholesterol went up. They put me back on Lipitor, my cholesterol went down."
You mean that all statins aren't the same? That different people respond to different drugs in different ways. That generic substitution can have ... unintended consequences? Holy cow! And who is the mysterious "they" the Senator refers to? Probably not his Uncle Sam.
(PS, "Zocor" is not the "generic." Simvastatin is the generic. Not the same thing. But that's another story for another time.)
