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Cheaper medicines, free beach trips: US health plans tap prescriptions that feds say are illegal

By CNBC.com  
   November 14, 2025

Alternative funding programs defend their business practices as both legal and safe and say their businesses are an antidote to high prescription drug prices. Those prices, across all drugs, in the U.S. are nearly three times as much, on average, as those in other high-income countries, according to a 2024 report by Rand, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization.

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