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One of the most difficult challenges that policy-makers will face in the next 10 years is tackling the ethical considerations involved in the coverage of so-called ‘lifestyle’ drugs. Should health plans provide coverage for such drugs? If so, should limits be set? And will limits jeopardise physician-patient relationships? At the sixth annual Drug Information Association symposium on Quality of Life Evaluation [ Hilton Head, South Carolina, US; March 1999 ], Dr James Sabin shared his experience in establishing coverage policies and provided some answers to these questions. *
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* Dr Sabin is an associate clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, US, and codirector of the Center for Ethics in Managed Care at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
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Doshi, D. Ethical considerations in the coverage of ‘lifestyle’ drugs. Inpharma Wkly. 1189, 3–4 (1999). https://doi.org/10.2165/00128413-199911890-00004
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2165/00128413-199911890-00004