How can drug co. justify this?

If I may ask a couple of questions. Okay so your doctor writes you a prescription. How do you order it through Canada? How do you compare prices?
 

fureverywhere said:
If I may ask a couple of questions. Okay so your doctor writes you a prescription. How do you order it through Canada? How do you compare prices?
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Fur, just go on the internet and research Canadian pharmacies. You can find info on the pharmacy, and also prices listed for the drugs you want, and instructions on how to get the prescription to them. Most of them have 800 numbers to, so you can call with questions. Just google ordering drugs from Canada, or Canadian pharmacies -- it will all come up. Just find the drug you want, and the strength, and the price is shown. Piece of cake.
 
IIRC, there are several manufactures of Epi-pen type devices in Europe. If they are good enough for 400 million Europeans, why not us?
 

[FONT=&quot]A company Mylan making epipens just raised the price 400% on something that is a life saving device.
Mylan CEO Heather Bresch—the daughter of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin probably thought she was well protected she was also gave money to the Clinton Foundation who she is also a partner for even more protection. The FDA has stalled and stopped anyone else from bringing to market any alternative. Epinephrine is extremely cheap—just a few cents per dose. So with no competition you can get away with anything.
The problem is you play with snakes and they will turn on you.
Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the price of epipen is “outrageous” and called on manufacturer Mylan to lower the price of the life-saving device used to treat serious allergic reactions.
Sorry Heather Bresch Hillary turned on you. [/FONT]
 
Isn't this nice of them...??? :confused:


Mylan says it will make available a generic version of its EpiPen, as criticism continued to mount over the price of its injectable medicine.
The company said Monday that its U.S. subsidiary will put out a generic version of the EpiPen that will have a list price of $300 for a two-pack. It will be available in both 0.15 mg and 0.30 mg strengths.
Myland N.V. said that it anticipates having the generic versions available in the next several weeks. It will continue to market and distribute branded EpiPen.
The company charges $608 for a two-pack of the branded EpiPen. Mylan said it will keep in place the $300 savings card for the branded EpiPen and the revised patient assistance program announced last week.
 
d0ug said:
A company Mylan making epipens just raised the price 400% on something that is a life saving device.
Mylan CEO Heather Bresch—the daughter of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin probably thought she was well protected she was also gave money to the Clinton Foundation who she is also a partner for even more protection. The FDA has stalled and stopped anyone else from bringing to market any alternative. Epinephrine is extremely cheap—just a few cents per dose. So with no competition you can get away with anything.
The problem is you play with snakes and they will turn on you.
Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the price of epipen is “outrageous” and called on manufacturer Mylan to lower the price of the life-saving device used to treat serious allergic reactions.
Sorry Heather Bresch Hillary turned on you.
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Please provide proof? Oh.. wait... You don't need any.
 
Pappy said:
Isn't this nice of them...??? :confused:


Mylan says it will make available a generic version of its EpiPen, as criticism continued to mount over the price of its injectable medicine.
The company said Monday that its U.S. subsidiary will put out a generic version of the EpiPen that will have a list price of $300 for a two-pack. It will be available in both 0.15 mg and 0.30 mg strengths.
Myland N.V. said that it anticipates having the generic versions available in the next several weeks. It will continue to market and distribute branded EpiPen.
The company charges $608 for a two-pack of the branded EpiPen. Mylan said it will keep in place the $300 savings card for the branded EpiPen and the revised patient assistance program announced last week.
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Oh how nice of them... So now the price is only going from less than $100 for a two pack to $300? How generous of them?
 
QuickSilver said:
Oh how nice of them... So now the price is only going from less than $100 for a two pack to $300? How generous of them?
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If there was ever a good reason for clamping down on these drug companies, this EpiPen thing should be a prime example. The ingredients in these things probably cost no more than $5, and the production, packaging, etc., might add another $5. At $100, they are making a huge profit, and anything more is just outrageous.
 
Hmmm...The CEO of the company that make the Epi-pen is the daughter of Long time Democratic Senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin. Political influence can sure make a family go far I guess.
I'm sure if there's any Senare hearings about this, it will all work out in the end.
 
QuickSilver said:
Please provide proof? Oh.. wait... You don't need any.
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Snopes...

However, Mylan, the company she heads, has donated somewhere between $100,000 and $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation — thereby joining the ranks of thousands of other donors, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, the Commonwealth of Australia, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Norwegian government, the Netherlands government, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, and the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
 
QuickSilver said:
So we must infer from this inane post folks... that the high cost of medication in the USA is the fault of the Democrats... WHO Knew?
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You asked for proof that the drug company Mylan contributed to the Clinton foundation. There you have it. None of us here would ever believe the Hillary or Obama would look the other way for one of their major donors. That would be unethical.
 
One way the drug companies could help is quit all the expensive advertising! Do patients tell drs what meds to prescribe?? And with all the dire side effects they tell you in the commercials it's a wonder anyone wants to take the stuff unless they're going to die without it. Who are the ads meant for? It's just another ploy to get patients to tell the doc to write it up cause it's something new. Then the drug makers get sued for all the bad things that other med did to them. So the companies lose money and need to recoup. It doesn't make sense to me.
 
Whenever you see a "Ask your Doctor" ad on TV, you can bet that the cost of that commercial will be added to the cost of the drug being advertised. The cost of a 30 second commercial on network TV can be as high as $250,000. A 30 second TV commercial during special events, such as the Super Bowl, can be as high as $3,500,000. The drug companies spend billions, per year, pushing their junk on TV, and the people who are taking these drugs are paying for that advertising. The Only nations which allow all this "Ask your Doctor" crap are the U.S. and New Zealand...which goes a long way towards explaining why drugs are so much more expensive here than in Canada or Mexico, for example.

It would take an act of Congress to stop this abuse of our Health Care System....but given that the drug companies are among the most generous donors to the political campaigns, there is little likelihood that this situation will be changed.
 
dearimee said:
One way the drug companies could help is quit all the expensive advertising! Do patients tell drs what meds to prescribe?? And with all the dire side effects they tell you in the commercials it's a wonder anyone wants to take the stuff unless they're going to die without it. Who are the ads meant for? It's just another ploy to get patients to tell the doc to write it up cause it's something new. Then the drug makers get sued for all the bad things that other med did to them. So the companies lose money and need to recoup. It doesn't make sense to me.
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All the side effects they list in those drug commercials makes me yearn for the days when we trusted the doctor and knew nothing. How can anyone recover when stroke, heart failure, cancer, lymphoma, convulsions and death could be the result of taking a prescribed medication. Once a person knows this can happen, they're much more likely to have a negative reaction to a drug. Honestly this has made me turn to holistic healing and homeopathy wherever feasible.
 

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