http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/us/lawmakers-look-for-ways-to-provide-relief-for-rising-cost-of-generic-drugs.html?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion®ion=Footer&module=TopNews&pgtype=article“I believe in markets, but this market is broken; it’s failing... the trend is going up rather than down, as we’d expect, and not just 2 or 5 percent but by hundreds or even thousands of percent.” Brand-name medicines have increased in price as well, by an average of 12.9 percent in 2013...
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
