{"id":580832,"date":"2010-05-26T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10007102"},"modified":"2010-05-26T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T03:06:10","slug":"why-paying-more-for-brand-name-drugs-is-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/580832","title":{"rendered":"Why Paying More For Brand Name Drugs Is Folly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/brandversusgenerics-thumb-165x95-40709.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>There are some people out there who just don&#8217;t get how much crazy money you can save with buying generic drugs. For those folks, this infographic was crafted by Mint.com. To illustrate the cost-savings possible, they took a look at Advil. For the same 200 mg of isobutylpropanoicphenolic acid, people are willing to pay over $8 more per box. Those pretty graphics aren&#8217;t going to chase away your headache any faster, honey. Let&#8217;s take a look:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"VSGenerics7.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/VSGenerics7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"3575\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/>Crazy, right? If this is the kind of thing that gets you riled up, Consumer Reports also has a great service for an unbiased comparison of the cost-efficacy of different kinds of drugs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/health\/best-buy-drugs\/index.htm?EXTKEY=I91CONL&#038;CMP=OTC-Consumeristlinks\" >called Best Buy Drugs<\/a> that you should check out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mint.com\/blog\/trends\/the-rip-brand-vs-generic-drugs\/\" >The RIP: Brand vs Generic Drugs<\/a> [Mint]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some people out there who just don&#8217;t get how much crazy money you can save with buying generic drugs. For those folks, this infographic was crafted by Mint.com. To illustrate the cost-savings possible, they took a look at Advil. For the same 200 mg of isobutylpropanoicphenolic acid, people are willing to pay over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}