MSNBC MSNBC Live With Ali Velshi December 30, 2019 20:53:00
Components. $86 per pill versus 47 cents for the two generic ingredients. an arthritis pain reliever, $30 per pill versus 35 cents for the generic. >> these are small tweaks on existing medications that have been around for decades in some cases and that doctors have known and been using for these purposes for years. >> reporter: her study found that brand-name combination drugs cost medicare close to a billion dollars. >> is there any kind of magic to these new combination drugs? >> magic? no, there's no magic. the way i think about it is in a lot of ways we are paying for the repackaging her...