Patients with VA coverage less likely than other insured Americans to skip medication

(Physicians for a National Health Program) Veterans' Administration patients were less likely than other insured Americans to skip medications due to cost. Although VA enrollees were older, sicker, and poorer than other Americans, fewer (6.1%) reported that costs caused them to go without medication, compared to 10.9% of non-VA patients. The VA keeps drug costs low through regulations, negotiations with drug companies, and a national formulary, strategies that could be a model for a national pre...