You’re in trouble if you have to buy your own brand-name prescription drugs. Over the past decade, prices leaped by more than double the inflation rate. Treatments for chronic conditions can easily top $2,000 a month -- no wonder that one in four Americans can’t afford to fill their prescriptions. The solution A hearty chorus of "O Canada." North of the border, where price controls reign, those same brand-name drugs cost 50 % to 80 % less.
The Canadian option is fast becoming a political wake-up call. "If our neighbors can buy drugs at we " Even to whisper that thought provokes anger. "Un-American! And -- the propagandists’ trump card (王牌) -- "Wreck our brilliant health-care system." Supersize drug prices, they claim, fund the research that sparks the next generation of wonder drugs. No skyhigh drug price today, no cure for cancer tomorrow. So shut up and pay up.
Common sense tells you that’s a false alte
A. Low prices will affect the quality of medicines in America.
B. High prices are essential to funding research on new drugs.
C. Low prices will bring about the anger of drug manufacturers.
D. High-price drugs are indispensable in curing chronic diseases.
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