AARP’s annual survey of prescription drug prices found the average price of the most widely prescribed brand-name drugs increased 8.7 percent in 2008, while the general inflation rate was 3.8 percent. But the news isn’t all bad: the average price of generic drugs dropped 10.6 percent in 2008.

Prescription drugs represent only 10 percent of total healthcare expenditures... [728 word article, September 2009]