It’s an amazing fact that we pay more, much more than any other country in the world for medications(read the Incidental Economist link). More than double what New Zealand pays:
Medicynical note– Our republican congress during the Bush years wouldn’t agree to negotiating prices with drug companies when Medicare part D passed. After all we wouldn’t want to stress the poor drug company’s profits. Health care? Quality? Value? Not our department.
Medicynic 