Reply #4: ah, i see it's mostly john edward's fault.

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why is there nothing in that screed about health care insurance?

retail prices for prescription meds in the u.s. are insanely high because they don't expect people to pay retail. they expect people to have insurance, and they expect insurance to have limits for each covered med, and they want to make sure that the retail price is at least as high as the highest limit that any insurance company might have.

so they price it insanely high, knowing that it will get knocked down to the price negotiated by the insurance company.

if someone actually pays retail price, they just laugh all the way to the bank.