Lipitor or Generic? Billion-Dollar Battle Looms

Health insurance companies want to start switching their patients to generic Zocor now that the patent for Zocor is expiring. But some are arguing that switching patients from supposedly more effective statins such as Lipitor to generic Zocor would short-change them. This article discusses this controversy, and talks about the different statins that are available to patients.

post edited October 16, 2005 at 1:07 pm