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Records show that drug companies gave nearly $75,000 to the top Republican and Democrat on a committee investigating them. House lawmakers rip ‘middlemen’ over high drug prices – despite ...
"For example, retail prescription drug spending was estimated to account for nearly 12% of total personal health care service spending in the United States in 2019 (up from about 7% in the 1990s ...
"Because of the prescription drug law, the coverage gap ends on Dec. 31, 2024," its website states. The so-called "donut hole," or coverage gap, has affected almost all prescription plans.
In the United States, there were approximately 109,600 drug-overdose-related deaths in the 12-month period ending January 31, 2023, at a rate of 300 deaths per day. [6] From 1999 to 2020, nearly 841,000 people died from drug overdoses, [7] with prescription and illicit opioids responsible for 500,000 of those deaths. [8]
Nearly half of all 3,100 counties in America have no doctors certified to prescribe buprenorphine by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to a Huffington Post analysis. Hundreds of counties have very few certified doctors.
The United States spends more money on prescription drugs than any other developed nation in the world. [2] [3] [4] In 2020 alone, the United States spent $358.7 Billion on prescription drugs. [5] The United States does not guarantee universal healthcare coverage to its citizens.
Prescription drug list prices in the United States continually are among the highest in the world. [1] [2] The high cost of prescription drugs became a major topic of discussion in the 21st century, leading up to the American health care reform debate of 2009, and received renewed attention in 2015.
Drug store chains are struggling because of falling reimbursement rates for prescription drugs, according to analysts who cover the industry. The majority of drugstores’ sales comes from filling ...