Don't get me wrong. We see self-pay patients for $25.00 and some patients at no charge. We have, at times, had someone walk in off the street and treat them at no charge and even did follow-ups.
I am sure that some people think that samples cause drug prices to go up, etc. I think that there is way less chance that the "trickle down theory" of drug companies helping by decreasing the cost of insulin from $1,000 to $800, than for hundreds of samples being right where the patients are.
