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... but do they go far enough? How would your solutions work if we had universal publicly paid for health care that included prescription drugs?

The House is currently considering a bill called the Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2007 (H.R. 380). Here is how it describes the problem:

1. Americans unjustly pay up to 5 times more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries;
2. the United States is the largest market for pharmaceuticals in the world, yet American consumers pay the highest prices for brand pharmaceuticals in the world;
3. a prescription drug is neither safe nor effective to an individual who cannot afford it;