• unscholarly_source@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m not in the US, but one of the issues I have with medical insurance is that, say you need medication, the doctor will provide you with a prescription, requiring a specific brand due to the efficacy compared to other brands. The insurance providers would reject claims for the prescribed brand, and suggest an inferior brand that doctors warned to avoid.

    This happened to my older folks, and is baffling why insurances feel the need to override a doctor’s recommendations.

    • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      They were the same drug. The generic version is made after the original patent runs out and is an exact copy.