> Drugs account for 10-15% of total healthcare spending And still, drugs are too expensive in the USA, especially old drugs like insulin and albuterol (asthma

> Drugs account for 10-15% of total healthcare spending And still, drugs are too expensive in the USA, especially old drugs like insulin and albuterol (asthma inhalant) that seem to find new ways of being re-patented (e.g., through new delivery devices that are just novel enough to be granted a patent, but provide no significant improvement to the patient). If drugs, pricey as they are in the USA, are only 10-15% of healthcare spending, that should frighten you as to how cost-inefficient our health care system is.