I went to a pharmacy today....a place that i visit quite frequently because i have irreversible lung damage sustained from a job i worked for many years. I was in a outside line already ticked off because i was going to have shell out over $100.00 to pick up some medicine that amounts to a 15 day supply....over in the next line i heard a lady scream out $285.00!!! I really felt bad for her because she had to drive off....she just couldn't afford the medicine. How can medicines cost so much? I mean medicines for my lungs i thought were ridiculously high..but man if i had to pay that much.... it better be a life long cure...after i take that bottle i'm cured for life!! I know its not like that. Does anybody know how these pharmaceutical companies arrive at these prices for there drugs. Even with insurance some of the medications if they are not generic are super high. I think its rather odd that some of these same medications over in Canada are bought at half of the price they are being sold for in the United States.