I pay the equivalent of US$10.50 for specialist consultation and four similar generics for 3 months supply under the national health system here (Taiwan). I've never understood why Americans have accepted the profiteering from US pharmaceutical firms when new drug developments are subsidized by US taxpayers (see, e.g., "US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Pharmaceutical in the Last Decade,":https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspe...he-last-decade, September 2, 2020).