Because they cost less and require more than “Here, take these pills.” I’m on only a low-dose statin (at my own insistence I cut it in half) and Zetia, combined with a high-alkaline diet (which 2 doc friends told me would work), and my total cholesterol dropped from 180 to 102, LDL from 80 to 35. High dose stations are a racket.
Correction: told me it WOULDN’T work.