Obviously prescription drugs cost more than generics. But prices are also diverging dramatically. Via Austin Frakt, the chart below tells the story. While the price of generic drugs has fallen ...

When it comes to prescription drugs, the average cost between the end of 2005 and the end of 2015 has exploded higher by 172.1%! That outpaced the CPI-U by more than 150 percentage points in just ...

The cost of prescription drugs is out of control. Here’s a Philadelphian’s guide to navigating (and maybe even beating) our screwed-up system.

Since 2005, the cost of health care has increased an average of 6% each year, and the burden falls on both employers and ...

When it comes to the cost of prescription drugs today, there’s good news and bad news. Most vaccines are now free for people on Medicare, and most insulin costs just $35 or less a month for ...

In 2025, nearly 4 in 10 people said they worried about being able to afford their medications, up significantly from 27% in ...

Why prescription drugs cost so much. April 12, 2024. Doses of the antiviral drug Paxlovid on display in New York in 2022. (Stephanie Nano/AP) In their April 9 op-ed, ...

One cost-saving provision they’ve offered as a pay-for is using the government to set prescription drug prices for Medicare Part D. Estimates indicate that such price-setting could save $500 ...

When it comes to the cost of prescription drugs today, there’s good news and bad news. Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act signed into law by President Biden in 2022, ...