America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs.
We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.
I don't even take aspirin.
Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.
America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens of other advanced nations.
It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.
In every country except - industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That's one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.