Why we choose generic medication? The answer come in two words. The generic are "Safe" and "Affordable". These two words have important meaning of why we better use the generic than the brand version. I will explain each of the definition of those two words.
The first one is "Safe", what this is mean? It means generic drug has the same ingredient with its branded drug, It has the same active ingredient, usually this active ingredient became the generic name. But then come another question, why the look, colour, and flavor from this generic medicine are different with their brand competitor? This is what we called as inactive ingredients that used as the differences between generic medicine and branded medicine, this thing is needed because according to the US law the generic drug can't copy exactly the branded version. For your information, this inactive ingredient don't have any side effect for your health. If one of generic drug has the same active ingredient with that branded one, so you have the same drug effect. The point is the generic medications is as safe as their branded counterparts.
The second word is "Affordable", this indicate that generic drugs are sold at lower price, much..much.. lower than its brand version. Why this could be ? According to the previous paragraph, generic medications have the same active ingredient with its branded counterpart. If they have the same ingredient the pharmacy should sell it at the same price isn't it? Or maybe the difference is not too far between them. Well, the answer is because the branded version is always the innovator. The pharmaceutical company make lot of research and development to find this type of drug. This research and development activity spent much money and time. So when the drug is made they mark up the price as huge as possible in addition to cover up all their past their R&D costs.
Some of popular prescriptions such as Fosamax, metformin, norvasc, Zocor, diovan, nexium, plavix, singulair, flomax, Synthroid, and Celebrex have their own generic version too.
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