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So that’s why prescription drugs cost so much…

From The Consumerist:
bq.. drug companies pour $57.5 billion into marketing, dwarfing the comparably paltry $31.5 billion devoted to research.
Billions of marketing dollars go toward television ads that implore us to “ask our doctor” about drugs we don’t need to treat ailments cultured by public relations firms. Yet even more money is spent convincing doctors [...]