For many years, Americans have paid the highest prices anywhere in the world for prescription drugs. They paid far more, 10 times, 13 times, 15 times more than other countries for the exact same product. A major reason is that the American consumers have been subsidizing research and development costs for the entire planet.They put all of that on us and yet they were the beneficiaries to. So, it's being changed as of today. The United States had just 4% of the world's population and consumers, only 13% of a ...