Posted by Novelagent on September 2, 2012, at 10:58:09
In reply to Medicaire Part D Exclusion Effects Tx of Anxiety, posted by Phillipa on August 31, 2012, at 21:03:45
PHARMA, the lobbying group, put that provision into the Part D prescription drug benefit law because pharma doesn't make money off of benzos, which are off-patent. By switching medicare patients to more expensive, on-patent drugs, they make more money.
But benzos do increase falls in geriatric patients, sone severely, i once sadly thought my cat would do well to be on klonopin just once while she was petrified and hissing at a new dog I was introducing to her to live with to help her to acclimate to the dog. She kept falling off the bed, then I tooj her off the bed and she kept falling everywhere on the floor, it was horrible. : /. She was very, very old, 22 or 23.
Anyway, I don't know why anyone would fret about it, though. Klonopin is like $10 for a 30 day supply of 1mg, isn't it? I don't remember, it's been forever that I last had it... Maybe it was more. It's cheap, though. Medicaid always paid for mine, and I also have Medicare.
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