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AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print Oct 30, 2007
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Access to Affordable Medications: The Department of Veterans Affairs Pharmacy Plan as a National Model

Chester B Good, MD, MPH and Michael Valentino, RPh, MHSA

Chester B. Good is with the Pharmacy Benefits Management Strategic Healthcare Group, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC, and the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pa. Michael Valentino is with the Pharmacy Benefits Management Strategic Healthcare Group, Washington, DC.


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FIGURE 1— Average 30-day prescription outpatient drug cost: Veterans Health Administration, October 1998–May 2007.

 

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FIGURE 2— US veterans’ life expectancy versus life expectancy at birth for all US men, 1991–2002.

Source. Adapted from Lichtenberg.3

 





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