More than 1.1 million deaths among Medicare recipients due to high cost of drugs

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Original post: Newswise - Addiction More than 1.1 million deaths among Medicare recipients due to high cost of drugs

ore than 1.1 million Medicare patients could die over the next decade because they cannot afford to pay for their prescription medications, according to a new study released today by the West Health Policy Center, a nonprofit and nonpartisan policy research group and Xcenda, the research arm of the drug distributor AmerisourceBergen.