An article in the Aug. 13, 2009, issue of the Wall Street Journal has made the obvious very clear economically — most health-care costs come with increasing age, especially after age 65. Furthermore, most of these increasing health-care costs are in the form of increased prescription drug usage. Good for the pharmaceutical industry; not so good for the growing government deficits that come with increased Medicare financing. So what does the ongoing health-care debate say about the increasing poly-pharmacy used by our aging population? Basically nothing. Let me propose a relatively radical solution: To start a drug reduction program initiated by the primary care physician for those presently enrolled in any health-care plan. Click for the Entire Article