Rigging charge exposes fish tale behind antibiotic prices

New York

AT least twice a week, Tanja Vanderlinde says, patients call in to say that they can't afford drugs.

High-deductible health plans mean they have to dip into their own pockets to pay for generic antibiotics such as doxycycline, a "gold standard" for Lyme disease, said Ms Vanderlinde, an internist at Concord Hospital Medical Group in New Hampshire.