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pbarnes_1
on June 28, 2018
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Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just...
Yup. Insurance companies like to pretend all generics are the same, but they are not. Getting them to pay for the brand because all of a sudden your pharmacy switches generic brands is almost impossible.
aflessner
on June 29, 2018
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Can you explain what is different about certain generics?
monetus
on June 29, 2018
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Generics, all of them I'd intuit, seem to be manufactured with the same active ingredients but different 'filler' ingredients that are non-active.
Abruptly changing that filler could very well send an epileptic into a static seizure.
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