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Have you taken a prescription drug during the past
month?
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By Clive Riddle, September 3, 2010
CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has just
released a Data Brief: Prescription Drug Use Continues
to Increase: U.S. Prescription Drug Data for 2007-2008 [Gu
Q, Dillon CF, Burt VL. Prescription drug use continues
to increase: U.S. prescription drug data for 2007-2008.
NCHS data brief, no 42. Hyattsville, MD: National Center
for Health Statistics. 2010.] Here’s a laundry list of
what you can glean from the eight page report on U.S.
prescription drug use.....
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the economy struggling, businesses have been shifting
more of the costs of health insurance to workers through
premiums, deductibles and other cost-sharing. This may
be helping to stem the rapid rise in premiums that we
saw in the early 2000s, but it also means employer
coverage is less comprehensive.”
Drew Altman, Ph.D., Kaiser President and CEO
