High Co-Pays Keeping Chronically Ill From Their Meds

And another expert turned the focus to physicians.

"Overall, this [study] is more of a commentary about the delivery of primary care services, not cost-sharing," said Greg Scandlen, founder of the nonprofit advocacy group Consumers for Health Care Choices. "I'm just shocked that doctors are not paying attention to what their own patients are doing, that five years later, their patients are not taking the drugs prescribed."

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There's more on prescription drug costs at the Kaiser Family Foundation.