41.   Should health plans cover potentially expensive drugs that might come along to combat memory loss associated with aging?

42.   Some companies have begun to reduce their prescription drug benefits, requiring workers to make larger co-payments or putting some expensive drugs off-limits.

43.   Some doctors have questioned the value of prescribing a more expensive drug to perform the same function as less expensive rivals.

44.   Such an approach would cause many people to be treated needlessly, with expensive drugs that have strong side effects, they said.

45.   The Gore plan also provides catastrophic coverage for expensive drug purchases.

46.   The funds will also be used to pay for expensive drugs like protease inhibitors that have been successful in preventing people who are HIV positive from contracting the disease.

47.   The money would help pay for expensive anti-viral drugs that have dramatically lowered death rates from the disease in wealthy countries.

48.   The PBMs create lists of preferred drugs for plan members, typically the least expensive drugs, and cover more of the cost of those medications.

49.   The only approved treatment in the United States is alpha interferon, an expensive drug with dangerous side effects.

50.   The study suggests that advertisements may be persuading consumers to push for newer, costlier medicines when less expensive drugs would work just as well.