It's Official - Reconciliation It Is

Even more than high-quality high-price specialists our protected Pharm industry is usually bullet point number one for anyone that wants to trumpet our back-breakingly expensive medical costs compared to that demon "socialized medicine". If we treated our Pharmaceutical companies the way Germany, France, Sweden and the UK does theirs, we'd never have minoxidil or Viagra. We'd stifle innovation and key advances in drug therapy.

I'm just happy to be close enough to Canada that in a pinch I could go get a really expensive drug here cheaply in generic form there. Still, for my allergies & what not I pay over $400/month for 5 drugs (was just under half that when I was insured). Get past your 60s and you're a cash cow.