6 States May Join to Cut Drug Costs
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New England legislators are considering combining their six states’ populations into a purchasing group to get deep discounts for prescription drugs from drug makers, the Boston Globe reported. Prescription drug expenditures are rising 15% a year and cost increases threaten to surpass total hospital expenditures in the next year or two, the Globe said.
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