Specialty drugs strain gov't, patients (UPI)
Enrollees in Medicare drug plans are feeling the pressure of rising U.S. specialty prescription drug costs and are helping fill industry coffers, analysts say.

Medicare Plans Affected by Rising Drug Costs (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Driven in part by specialty drugs, the prices of medicines heavily used by the elderly have risen more than 24 percent since June 2006, two senior health economists at Harvard reported.