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Prescription Drugs for Half Price or Less
by Stephen Hyde
ISBN: 0553588885
ISBN-13: 9780553588880
Format: Paperback
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Publisher: Bantam Books Published date: 2005 Size: 4.25 x 6.75 inches Weight: 0.35 pounds Pages: 290
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A health-care advocate shares a number of safe, simple, and effective ways for patients to dramatically cut the cost of medications without sacrificing their health, discussing such options as generic or lower-priced brands, medicare drug coverage, over-the-counter alternatives, buying drugs in Canada, and other strategies. Simultaneous.
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