Prescription-drug prices are expected to be a major issue in the 2000 presidential campaign, with most drugs costing substantially more in the U.S. than overseas. What do you think about the high cost of medication in America?

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  Actually, that's not entirely true: Kessler's Drugs is having a big sale on Tetracycline this week. There's a coupon in the Sunday Shopper.

  Lorraine Kiel
  Homemaker

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  I blame women for the high prices. They're always needing some fancy pill for their box or for lumps in the rack or something.

  Keith Fowler
  Cab Driver

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  As the CEO of a major pharmaceutical firm, I can assure you that those high prices are necessary to cover the extraordinary cost of membership dues and green fees.

  Walter Moore
  Pharmaceutical CEO

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  I think what's getting lost in this whole debate is this: Taking drugs is wrong."

  Liz Putnam
  Librarian

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  That reminds me: Do you have $217 I can borrow? I don’t have insurance, and I need something to stop all this ocular bleeding.

  Rajeev Gopindar
  Cashier

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  Maybe it's good that I can't afford anti- psychotic medication. It frees me up to plan the assassination of Deputy Dawg.

  Bob Sharperson
  Systems Analyst