"Aspirin is just plain aspirin and nothing else," says Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson. It is just that, he claims, regardless of how much it costs and whether it carries a famous brand name. Nelson goes further: he believes that prescription drugs for serious illnesses should be dispensed, not under a manufacturer's trademark name, but under the "generic" (common chemical) name, which usually carries a lower price tag. Whether generic and brand-name drugs are really medically equivalent has been debated before Nelson's Senate Monopoly Subcommittee for almost two months now. So far, no...
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