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1.	Bookmarks: 6	How Much Are Your Spending at the Pharmacy Prescription medication is vital to the practice of medicine. Americans spent more than $170 billion for their prescription medication in 2004. Those over the age of 65 spend more on prescription costs ($2,300 a year average) than on physician care, vision services, and medical supplies combined. In fact, the total health care spending in the United States in 2004 was $1.8 trillion. That is 4.3 times the amount spent on national defense. When are we going to do something about this?