Average Annual Cost Of Specialty Drugs Now Exceeds US Median Household Income

https://www.scribd.com/doc/290567376/Price-Watch-Trends-in-Retail-Prices-of-Specialty-Prescription-Drugs-2006-to-2013-Nov

This is such a  criminal racket. Take a look at generic antibiotic doxycycline that's been around almost 50 years. Some people suggest that the big pharmacy outfits conspired to buy all of it for the purpose of creating a fake shortage. When a drug costs 30 times what it once did

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/07/business/la-fi-lazarus-20130308 

Diane Shattuck filled a prescription in December for a generic antibiotic called doxycycline. With insurance, she paid $4.30 for 60 pills at a CVS store in Orange.

She returned at the end of February to refill her prescription. This time, she was told her cost for the drug would be about $165.

Stay healthy my friends...