A lot of the cost of US drugs isn't even the drugs or pharmacies, it is the fact that you need an expensive doctors appointment just to have access to those dru

A lot of the cost of US drugs isn't even the drugs or pharmacies, it is the fact that you need an expensive doctors appointment just to have access to those drugs. There are toe nail fungus lacquers that you can buy over the counter pretty much anywhere else in the world, but require a prescription in the US. And even if other places have restrictions on it, it usually amounts to "talk to the pharmacist for 2 minutes first", and not go drop a few hundred bucks on visiting a doctors office first just to say "yep, you got nail fungus!" Many Americans are literally taking farm animal drugs because it is the only access to those drugs they can afford.