No wonder prescription drug prices are so high. The pharmeceutical industry has spent $29 million dollars lobbying Congress against allowing imports of approved prescription drugs, which can almost always be had less expensively than domestically-purchased prescriptions. For the complete AP story, click here.

$29,000,000. That is about $1 for every American who went without health insurance for the entire year of 1998, the most recent year that the Congressional Budget Office has reliable comparative data on the subject.