In the UK for people on low or no incomes or people under or over certain ages all prescription drugs are free and for everyone else they are a fixed charge per

In the UK for people on low or no incomes or people under or over certain ages all prescription drugs are free and for everyone else they are a fixed charge per item (usually 9.35GBP). This is regardless of whether they are the latest and greatest or a generic. https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/prescriptions-and-pharmacies/nhs-prescription-charges/ https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/prescriptions-and-pharmacies... The US has one of the highest per-capita spends on healthcare in the world[1] for demonstrably poorer health outcomes[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea... and elsewhere [2] eg the CIA factbook all-cause mortality table shows Bangladesh as having about half the mortality rate of the US. https://web.archive.org/web/20201010211308/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/346.html https://web.archive.org/web/20201010211308/https://www.cia.g...