The rising cost of specialty drugs contributed to a 3.2 percent increase in total prescription drug spending in 2013, to $329.2 billion, the IMS report found. In 2012, drug spending declined by 1 percent, driven by the arrival of several new generic drugs after the patent for the brand-name products expired.
Harriet Tubman is the next face of the $20 bill; $5 and $10 bills will also change. Harriet Tubman is changing the face of your money. Harriet Tubman might not be the first woman to grace a United States bank note, but her replacing President Andrew Jackson on the front of the bill is making waves. The new bill will be unveiled in 2020.
The current design of the United States one dollar bill ($1) technically dates to 1963 when the bill became a Federal Reserve Note as opposed to a Silver Certificate. However, many of the design elements that we associate with the bill were established in 1929 when all of the country's currency was changed to its current size.