Olmesartan (Benicar) costs: Why does insurance pay so little?
It’s common wisdom that you need to have insurance to lower health costs, even for something like the generic blood pressure medication Olmesartan (Benicar) — and that uninsured people generally pay a lot more. But what if that’s not true? What if you pay less by putting away your insurance card? It might make you…

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