Competing in a Retail Health Consumer Marketplace
Executive Summary
A new Booz Allen survey shows that as more consumers take on much bigger shares of the health costs, they've started to focus on price, including the price of drugs--often rejecting their doctors' recommendations. To counteract even greater price pressures, drug firms need to provide physicians a different set of information and services, designed to meet the new demands of these new cost-conscious patients.
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