No Wonder Drug Coverage Is a Big Political Issue takes

If your medicine cabinet has more than five prescription medicines, it’s got lots of company. A survey finds 30 percent of U.S. adults have as many drugs in their inventory. Though higher among those age 65 and up (40 percent), the figure is sizable among under-65s (28 percent). Conducted for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health, the study found 54 percent of adults take prescription drugs on a regular basis, including 82 percent of the 65-and-overs and 49 percent of the under-65s.