1.   Arizona created a pilot program for low-income seniors and disabled people to cover unusually high medicine costs.

2.   The insurance industry has questioned whether the private sector could offer affordable stand-alone prescription drug policies to all senior citizens, whose medicine costs are typically high.

3.   The report cited further impact of popular drugs on the overall medicine cost and consumption.

4.   The United States insists that South Africa do away with a new law that would help reduce medicine costs by circumventing licenses held by U.S. and other drug producers.