Do you buy name brand medicine?
Poll Started 16 Feb 2009: Do you buy name brand medicine? Branded medicine has a powerful selling point: nobody wants to ‘scrimp’ on their health. Yet generic medicines (unbranded/own brand) offer EXACTLY the same active ingredient (see the cheap medicines guide for more) at a fraction of the cost. Often the only difference is the lack of fancy packaging, and the coating. Which of these do you mostly buy for yourself/your family?
Poll Started 16 Feb 2009:
Do you buy name brand medicine?
Branded medicine has a powerful selling point: nobody wants to ‘scrimp’ on their health. Yet generic medicines (unbranded/own brand) offer EXACTLY the same active ingredient (see the cheap medicines guide for more) at a fraction of the cost. Often the only difference is the lack of fancy packaging, and the coating.
Which of these do you mostly buy for yourself/your family?
Results
| A. Brand Name Medicines. |  |
959 votes (13 %) |
| B. Own brand for me, name brand for the kids. | |
565 votes (8 %) |
| C. Supermarket/Chemist's Own Brand. | |
3,934 votes (55 %) |
| D. Uber-cheap unbranded. | |
1,226 votes (17 %) |
| E. I get free prescriptions (so there’s no price difference). | |
453 votes (6 %) |
7,137 votes received.
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