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C'mon folks, this isn't complicated. Hill used Indian government data on the cost of pharmaceutical ingredients and allowed for a 50-percent profit margin - but no money for investment in research - to work out the costs of producing certain drugs. On this basis, he found that Novartis' leukaemia drug Glivec actually cost $159 for a year's treatment, against the $106,000 charged in the United States. Roche's Tarceva for lung cancer cost $236, against a U.S. price of $79,000, and Novartis' Tykerb cost $4,000 against a price of $74,000. In all these cases the U.S. cost was far above that...

<p>WASHINGTON — Republicans got a surprising boost Tuesday from AARP, the nation's largest and most powerful seniors group on an issue that's bedeviled Washington for years -- prescription drugs for seniors.</p> <p>"I think it's important news that there is one party that can essentially control the outcome here," Chris Hansen, director of advocacy for AARP told Fox News. "In terms of getting to a final conclusion, I think having one-party control, whichever party, it is probably a good thing. I think Republicans are serious about making this a priority."</p>