Researchers have found that increasing co-payments (or co-insurance rates) for pharmaceutical drugs may cause: Question 29 options: health insurers to offer more generous coverage patients to switch to generic equivalents to save money an increase in spending on research and innovation to create new drugs patients to use more brand-name drugs, leading to lower costs in the long run
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