US President Joe Biden issued an order on Friday criticizing the high prices of prescription medicine in the US, which according to the president are more than 2.5 times higher than in other countries - if not more.
This has led to one in four Americans struggling to pay for their medicine, while a third do not take their medicine as advised, the decree states.
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