Medicare benefit boosts drug sales 1%, study says
From Bloomberg News
A new government drug benefit increased U.S. pharmaceutical sales by $2.5 billion, or 1%, in 2006, according to a study.
Purchases by the Medicare health program for the elderly and disabled accounted for a sixth of the growth in drug sales in the plan’s first year, according to IMS Health Inc., a healthcare research provider.
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