Standing at the pharmacy counter, the pharmacist asks if you want a generic or brand-name product. Generic is $15. The brand name is $120. Same prescription, same medication supposedly, but one costs eight times more. So what’s the deal? Is the expensive one actually better, or are you just paying for the name? At Soma…
Last winter, I was in CVS getting my prescription refilled when I saw a sign about flu shots. I’d been putting mine off for weeks because I couldn’t get an appointment with my doctor until after the holidays. So I asked the pharmacist if I could just get it done right there. She said sure,…