Gop Candidates Struggle To Address Public Ire Over Drug Costs

<p>Florida Sen. Marco Rubio blamed skyrocketing drug costs on “pure profiteering” by drug companies at a private campaign event in New Hampshire. </p><p>Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson complained in Iowa that “the same drug that costs 60 dollars here for a pill, you can go to another country and get it for a quarter.”</p><p>And billionaire businessman Donald Trump said it was “disgusting” that Turing Pharmaceuticals had imposed a 5,000 percent price hike on a drug relied on by HIV patients.

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