Not unsurprisingly our drug costs are so high because the congress in its wisdom(?) chose enriching the drug companies and Wall Street investors as the greater good over lower consumer costs by refusing to allow the largest single health care provider (Medicare) to bargain with the drug companies on drug prices. As the largest single payer that means Medicare pretty well sets the prices and since, by law, they cannot negotiate price which means the price ends up being whatever the drug companies can get away with.
Sounds like Reagan's "trickle-down economics" - that's the plan that "if we make the rich people even richer, they'll start giving their money to the other 99% and we'll all be wealthier". (as if THAT ever happens)
