Too many of his patients, he said, are "being forced to choose between paying the rent, buying food and taking expensive medicine."

With more sophisticated and expensive medicines being introduced every year, a big question is whether Medicare will be able to afford them.

A practice with more patients needing expensive medicines will be set a larger amount.

But a colleague who prescribed a less expensive medicine had the same success rates with his patients.

A 50-year-old with mildly elevated cholesterol wants to take expensive medicine to lower his already low risk of heart disease.

She had to have good food and expensive medicines.

For the rest of her life she would need a very special, very expensive medicine.

Are the medicines expensive and where do you get them?

Even those companies that hold the line on prices of older drugs can increase their profits by introducing new, more expensive medicines.

The problem with the poor is always the same: they are not rich enough to buy expensive medicines!