When a drug gets old enough to become generic, the company that created it loses a lot of revenue because the price drops and no one wants the brand name any more. They create a new drug that is patent protected and start the cycle again.
Yeppers!
I always ask for brand name meds and because my secondary ins is privately funded they will pay for it.
Sometimes a generic is as good as the brand name----- and sometimes it isn't.
Although I'm not a fan of Dr. Oz he gets some things right; This is one of them. It's not just because it happens to fit in with my thinking but is science based.
"The FDA only requires that you get 80% to 125% of the drug into your bloodstream from a generic medication compared to the original drug. What’s even more concerning is that there are often many different generic versions of the same drug, and each of these may be different as well.
Consider this: If you take a generic which only meets the minimum requirement and refill that prescription with one that’s at the maximum limit, you’ve potentially increased the amount you get into your body by as much as 45% percentage points – and you would have no way of knowing this from the labels, but it could certainly affect you.
The opposite could also happen, and you would be getting a lot less drug than you were previously – which could also affect you."
What You Need to Know About Generic Drugs | The Dr. Oz Show
But if a generic works for you---- then keep taking it, if you want to. I've had some instances where the generic did NOT work for me.