Generic Crestor Pricing Insanity

For a number of years, I ' ve used a statin drug (like 35 million Americans in the United States do). For more than a few years, these drugs were rather costly and protected by exclusive patent protection, although at the time, they were mostly covered by my insurance to prevent major heart attacks which could cost them even more (hundreds of thousands of dollars in claims).I ' ve used several different low-dose statins over the years, mostly for their preventative benefits. I initially began with Pfizer ' s Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium), but I experienced some pretty severe muscle aches which made it difficult for me to even get myself out of bed in the morning because my leg muscles were so cramped, which was not OK for a drug I did not even HAVE to be taking. As it turned out, muscle aches are a very common adverse effect of many statins. So my doctor switched me to rival AstraZeneca ' s Crestor (rosuvastatin calcium) which worked better, so I stayed on it. I use a single, 10 mg tablet each day.When I was still covered by United Healthcare, that company even sent me a free pill-splitter and suggested that I could slash my out-of-pocket costs in half by asking my doctor to prescribe the statin at twice the potency of the drug I had previously used, effectively taking a half-tablet instead. Evidently, the company paid the same exact price whether it was for a 10 mg tablet as it did for a 20 mg tablet which defied logic. Four 90-day supplies lasted me all year, although in m...
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