The U.S. pharmaceuticals market is far from a free market. And it's actually the main cause of the high drug prices in the U.S.: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/u

The U.S. pharmaceuticals market is far from a free market. And it's actually the main cause of the high drug prices in the U.S.: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-drug-prices-remain-high-generic-competitors-study/story?id=41589653 http://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-drug-prices-remain-high-gene... Companies wouldn't be able to "charge a billion dollars" or even increase the existing prices by 5,000% overnight, as it happened for several different drugs last year, if the generics and drug importation markets were much more "free".