Prescription drug prices are the focus, as a special Minnesota Senate committee looking at ways to improve health care has its second meeting at the Minnesota Capitol.  Chairman, Chaska Republican Scott Jensen, points to “incredible excursions” in prices for epipens and doxycycline, but beyond that

 

Jensen says pharmaceutical companies set exorbitant prices if the market will bear it, plus Americans have become “remarkably inclined to take pills at the drop of a hat.”