I was once prescribed 4 tablets of Albandazole (a drug for worms treatment) just before my health insurance was active on file. The drug was costing over 700$ without insurance and my health center asked if I would like to wait for my student health insurance to show up as active. I said, yes (ofcourse) shocked at the price of the drug (being an international student in US from India). Even after my insurance I paid 35$ co-pay. The same drug costs &lt;1$ in India. Even the co-pay is over 35 times the cost of the drug in India. I was trying to contrast some figures:<p>Salary ratio: ~5:1 (Software engineer, Google based on Glassdoor); 
Albendazole drug cost ratio: ~700:1