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What If Costco Designed the Prescription Drugs Sales Model?

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In 2006 the Medicare Part D program was implemented, covering older Americans for prescription drugs for the first time. The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S., is that 9 in 10 medicines prescribed are generics. They comprise only 3% of all U.S. healthcare spending.