The costs of medical care premiums will be shocking next year. A couple of the reasons for the increases are due to rising prescription use and the costs of those medications. Consumers and doctors are too passive about medicine.
Doctors prescribe medicine without knowing the retail cost.
Many doctors prescribe brand name drugs marketed to them by pharmaceutical representatives that provide personal incentives tied into sales goals. Your doctor might be taking a trip to a fancy resort if he or she prescribes enough of one medicine. Remember, however, that your doctor may not know how much that drug will cost a patient. Ask if your current medicine is available in a higher milligram dose. It's possible that higher milligram dose will be less expensive.