Which is the leading cause of high prescripiton drugs?

Question

A. excessive profiteering by drug companies
B. Mark up at the pharmacy
C. Over prescribing by physicans
D. Cost of research & development of new medications
E. Money spent by drug companies lobbying goverment officals
F. all of the above

Answer 1

F, it is an insult to the public, and may bankrupt the system, as greed has taken hold.Notice that walmart and target are expermenting with $4 generich drugs in Fl. gee maybe we all ought to move there!

Answer 2

All of the above! I will take your excellent question a step further and warn everyone that the powerful pharmaceutical industry employs more lobbyists than any other entity; it has a tremendous influence over the government and the FDA (even providing the FDA with most of its funding... talk about conflict of interest); it supports and pays for physicians' text books and curriculum, thus training physicians from the get-go that prescribing drugs is the way to go; and it has caused a culture of over-dependency and addiction to pharmaceutical drugs in the USA and other countries. Doctors now prescribe drugs first and foremost instead of looking for natural remedies or the true root causes of disease. As a result, we are becoming fatter and sicker and spending more on hazardous prescription drugs than ever before.

Answer 3

Drug companies and medical institutions. Most of the research has always been funded privately and through Government grant programs at no cost to the drug companies. Your research should reveal these facts.

Answer 4

Kick backs to the physicians who prescribe the drugs.

Answer 5

all the above. which all boils down to corporate greed, and tell me this how come the American company's sell their drugs to foreign country's dirt cheap but constantly rape us Americans? how UN American can you get? and don't give me this baloney about spending millions in research because they make billions in the first year!

Answer 6

F, but especially C. And you liberals, since we're talking specifcally about drug companies, it is drug company greed, so you don't have to say "corporate greed," your usual mantra. All corporations are not evil.

And great additions by rsist 34.and birdsnake.

Answer 7

Cost of Research.
Lawsuits by trial lawyers such as John Edwards, who made millions suing doctors and running up our health care costs.

Answer 8

Even the street drugs are high. I wish they'd legalize them so the price would come down.

Answer 9

I think you need to finish the question...the leading cause of high prescription drugs? Whats a "high prescription drug"? Sounds like the new rage!!

LMFAO Non!!!!

Answer 10

f and you forgot one. The price people are awarded for lawsuits. They shouldn't be allowed to get millions of dollars for some of the things they sue for. It raises the cost of mal-practice insurance thus the dr's. raise their prices for visits and treatment.