[JimSEA]

I am speculating about reasons for the lower costs, not endorsing the system although it does have good points.

1. They let the FDA of the USA and Japan do their work for them, they permit roughly the same drugs to be sold.

2. Doctors are the authority and their recomendations are followed mostly. If you go off on a tangent it is your tough luck. Asian medicine is popular but most people back up the herbs and roots with real drugs.

3. Perhaps the worst thing is the overuse and misuse of antibiotics. People take cipro for everything.

[maui_hawaii]

They let the FDA of the USA and Japan do their work for them

Exactly.