When the floor opened for new discussion, Kevin Park, the Parkview physician who was also the county coroner, stood to say something about prescription drugs. Doctors should be aware, he said, that drug prices varied by wider amounts than most of them realized. They had little idea what their prescriptions cost patients unless they were a patient themselves. One of Park’s had told him that Walmart charged $217 for a month’s worth of a cholesterol drug called Crestor—thirty pills. “Two hundred and seventeen dollars!” Park shouted. He let that hang in the air for a moment. The patient, he
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