[T]he big news about generic drugs is good news. Generic drug prices are falling. Three recent studies of generic drug prices all point in the same direction. Express Scripts, a large prescription drug manager, found that:

From January 2008 through December 2014, a market basket of the most commonly used generic medications decreased in price by 62.9%.

In an excellent overview the Department of Health and Human Services concluded that:

...drug acquisition costs fell for a majority of generic Medicaid prescriptions measured by both volume and total generic expenditures.