AARP study details price increases of popular drugs

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Mar 8 2012

The New York Times: AARP Study Says Price Of Popular Drugs Rose 26%
The prices of drugs used most widely by older Americans rose by nearly 26 percent from 2005 to 2009 - nearly twice the rate of inflation - according to a report issued Tuesday by AARP (Thomas, 3/6).

This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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