Just picked up 4 vials of insulin

[MOMFUDSKI]

this morning. A 90-day supply. Cost me $0 with my Advantage Plan. Walmart Pharmacy puts the COST to my insurance company. $1378.28. WOW

[BSdetect]

1. That ought to be so cheap in general. Not so expensive.

[MOMFUDSKI]

2. My neighbor is a Canadian pharmacist

and she was blown away by the price here in the US.

[Model35mech]

4. Corporate pricing still acts like it's 1885, All The Traffic Will Bear, suckers!

One might think pricing should be about the cost of development, cost of production and distribution, maybe some costs for insurance for potential liabilities.

But that's not at all how it's done.

Thanks to our corporate 'wiz kid$', it's about the -potential- value of the drug. You might think that's reasonable.

But then, how does one assign potential value of a drug that extends lives? What is a life worth? Well, priceless! Which isn't interpreted as to valuable to put a price on, but rather, that means there can be NO CAP on the price.

So they'll continue to do exactly what they can to collect all the traffic will bear.

[Brainstormy]

3. my Trelegy prescription costs

45 per month with Medicare advantage. Without it, it would be $ 740.00 for ONE month.