As someone said, they are a powerful lobby and its all dictated by money.

Yesterday, I get a letter from Anthem letting me know a BP med I take is "contaminated". I go to the pharmacy and get a replacement. I then check online about this. 40% (minimum) of our prescription meds are manufactured in China & India. The Big Pharma companies are simply middlemen. Their whine about the cost of manufacturing is as credible as my cats screaming about never being fed in their entire lives. And FORGET about quality control.

supply and demand ( greed )

Look no farther than Congress. They can fix this. Get insurance companies out of health care and watch the prices of everything in health care take a drastic drop. Insurance companies are evil and rip off the public for billions and billions of dollars every year, whether it is health care or car and homeowners insurance.

But SCIENCE!!!!!! How dare you question Big Pharma!
It's the Precious! You must do the thing or you die! Science!

Capitalism is not required to have morals, or to do the "right thing for the greater good".
All that is required is to make money.
Big Pharma is in the business of making as much money as they possibly can.

Because Congress is owned by Big Pharma. And any cons who suggest tRump is here to change that, "show me the money"

Remember Martin Shkreli, Who Raised Drug Prices 5,000 Percent? Turns out he's representative of the whole crooked industry. [thedailybeast.com]