Foreword
The cost of prescription drugs is higher in the United States than in any other country, and as new drug therapies replace the medical procedures of the past, Americans, especially the elderly, are using more medications than ever. Yet many have trouble paying for them. Medicare, enacted in 1965 to provide Federal health insurance for the elderly and disabled, has not been updated to include outpatient coverage of prescription drugs. Growing frustration over rapidly rising drug costs has led an increasing number of older Americans and others without insurance to buy drugs at lower prices from foreign sources, especially Canada…
