'Unreasonable' prescription drug costs; high prices and broken promises

The USA spends about $3.3 trillion a year on health care, with about 10% of that spending for prescription drugs. Most Americans are very concerned about the high cost of prescription drugs.

Three-quarters of Americans consider the cost of prescription drugs in the USA to be "unreasonable," and despite promises from the President and members of Congress to rein in prices, few approve of either's handling of the issue, according to a new national poll from the West Health Institute, a non-partisan, non-profit healthcare research organization, and conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago.

Only 23% of the public approves of how President Donald Trump is dealing with the high cost of prescription drugs. Nor are Americans satisfied with how either party in Congress is handling the issue: 20% approve of what Democrats in Congress are doing and 16% approve of how Republicans are handling the issue. Roughly a third of respondents had no opinion either way.