What is the true cost of medication after all I just paid $3.75 for a prescription at my pharmacy or was it? I pay $175 a month for my health insurance plus Medicare which I have been paying into since the 60s. So I reason that the cost of my prescription is more then the $3.75 that I just paid. Now between Medicare and United Health they can bargain with the drug companies to lower the price, but I’m still paying more than the $3.75.
Now we here in the States look at the European countries and say that the same drug that I just bought would be free or perhaps 25 cents. Realty, doesn’t the European governments leave a high tax and part of that tax is to pay for health care? Well if you take into account the money that the Europeans pay in taxes and what their governments take out to pay for healthcare and part of the payment in healthcare pays for drugs, I don’t believe you can say that the drug I just got was free or a lot cheaper then the people of the United States pay.
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The cost to the Europeans is cheaper in all likelihood because of bulk buying!!!
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