Reason 476 why Big Pharm Sucks!

[scooterbug44]

There is no reason for this - this is price gouging pure and simple.

A weekly shot to keep women from going into premature labor used to cost $10-20. Now a pharmaceutical company got a patent on it - and the price is going to now be $1,500! That's about $30K!

JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN!

And those compounding pharmacies who used to make the $10-20 doses AND HELPED THE COMPANY DEVELOP THE DRUG got served with a "cease and desist".

Premature labor drug spikes from $10 to $1,500 - Health - Pregnancy - msnbc.com

 

[LuciferSam]

I think I'll take big pharma over the herbal shaman any day.

 

[DuneAHH]

There is no reason for this - this is price gouging pure and simple.

A weekly shot to keep women from going into premature labor used to cost $10-20. Now a pharmaceutical company got a patent on it - and the price is going to now be $1,500! That's about $30K!

JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN!

And those compounding pharmacies who used to make the $10-20 doses AND HELPED THE COMPANY DEVELOP THE DRUG got served with a "cease and desist".

Premature labor drug spikes from $10 to $1,500 - Health - Pregnancy - msnbc.com

bat turds.
Wonder what they are charging for the INduce labor pill?

 

[DuneAHH]

I think I'll take big pharma over the herbal shaman any day.

zombie.

 

[scooterbug44]

I think I'll take big pharma over the herbal shaman any day.

It wasn't the herbal shaman, it was the typical treatment prescribed by doctors.

It's funny until you realize this one act just upped health care costs by $30 billion a year.

 

[Matt J]

We could always stop trying to over ride the bodies natural functions. :roll: Some people just weren't meant to have kids.

 

[scooterbug44]

This isn't a Frankenstein drug that lets pregnancies that typically wouldn't occur happen - these women would typically still have a viable pregnancy.

They would just have more issues and deliver a preemie .............with all of the $$ potential health issues that go with it.