Getting back to Mike's graph--

One of the principal causes of the high cost of medicine in the US is the excessive cost of pharmaceuticals here vs. in other countries. If we took drugs out of the equation, I wonder what the graph would look like? Americans pay an inflated amount of money for their meds compared to everyone else in the world. The pharmaceutical companies have one the strongest lobbies in Washington. One of the biggest reasons why our medical insurance premiums keeps going astronomical amounts every year?? - the continued increase in the cost of drugs.

How come the US is so out of whack compared to other countries? What does Canada do that we don't? And Europe? And Japan?

Sandy