I was reading through your comments and I can see where this is coming from. Most people seem to have tendencies for black and white thinking, especially on some topics - even though we enjoy thinking we are being completely objective and taking all points of view in consideration.

Or not only points of view, but facts. It's easy to try to seek out the facts from different things (like herbal medicine) and only pick the ones which support your point of view.

One of the issues with US is that how competition is controlled. Famous case with Daraprim is a great example of this: in other countries you can find generic medication for 0.05 to 0.10 USD per pill, while the price increase was 13.50 to 750 USD. _{Reading this from Wikipedia, but it's mentioned on several articles too.}
However some people are seeing this blindly from the perspective of their ideology instead of taking facts in consideration. They might blame evil capitalism, free markets and require government control. However, with free markets I would assume someone could buy the generic versions of the medicine..

This went a bit off the tracks though.