host: we are talking with john dicken. they looked in comparing with several other countries and we would love to hear from you. the lines are 202-748-8000 for the eastern and central time zones. 202-748-8001, fountain and pacific. particularly if you bought drugs in canada or whatever and had that experience or book drugs from pharmaceuticals overseas. we would love to hear your experience on that. john dicken, i want to go back this point. part of the summary of your reports is that each of the four countries use pricing strategies to limit the price of drugs, but the united states is the only country in our review that does not have the overarching pricing strategy for prescription drugs, although it is publicly funded coverage. such as medicaid. is there a why behind there is not a he u.s. pricing strategy? what do those strategies look like in other countries? guest: really in the u.s., as you know, the number of different payers, we rely in large part or in private health plans to offer through employers come through

is there a "why" behind that, er john dicken? >> yes, there are a number of reasons as to why prices might be higher in the u.s. compared to the other countries. just at a high level, some of those issues are that the countries vary as to whether s they have universal coverage for prescription drugs. that's true in australia and .sr france but not in the u.s. or canada. whether or not they have national regulations that affect the drug prices, make ceilings on the prices or require comparative effectiveness. and the other three countries have that. the u.s. has individual programs, individual health plans, individual public es. programs, but not a national approach to regulating drug prices. a third reason is differences in the distribution and supply ctur chain for drugs. in the u.s. there are a lot of entities between the olesal manufacturerer and the pharmacy. that includes wholesalers, it includes health plans, policy benefit managers. entit there's just a complex supply chain where number of entities c involved, each of whic

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