How a Supreme Court fight over fish oil could raise your prescription drug costs

sinceLF/iStockphoto/Getty Images The United States pays undeniably high prices for brand-name drugs. But when it comes to generics — the cheaper copycat medicines that now fill nine out of every 10 prescriptions in America — the country gets a very good deal. Americans pay less, on average, for generic medications than people in any other peer nation. But the wait for those savings can be long, with some brand-name monopolies lasting decades before a generic can hit the market. …