Trick Question....Are all powerful drugs that seem to do miracles expensive?

[Stuart G]

Answer in a couple of hours...or someone will get the answer sooner!

[Elessar Zappa]

1. Mine is.

I have cystic fibrosis and am on the miracle drug Trikafta. It’s costs over $300,000 a year. Luckily I have Medicare and Medicaid so I pay nothing.

[Stuart G]

2. Thank You for posting your experience and telling us the cost. I have Medicare too, and it has save

more money than I can think about................Let see....Who proposed "Medicare"?

Was it a Republican or a Democrat that proposed and passed ........."MEDICARE"

hint....not the bad guys...2 different people...One proposed, and one got it passed.

[DBoon]

7. and guess who was vocal in speaking out against Medicare when first proposed?

[mopinko]

3. acid and shrooms are cheap.

[Stuart G]

4. There is another one that is "dirt cheap" and it performs miracles.

Less than 3 cents a pill..Is that cheap enough?....The miracles that it performs were discovered by "mistake"

Hint:....This stuff thins the blood

[mopinko]

8. aspirin?

[Stuart G]

10. You got it ......"aspirin"...discovered by mistake to thin the blood...In one study, about pain

the researchers discovered that a group of doctors, who were part of the "pain study" had far
fewer heart problems than were expected from that large a group. After some time, researchers then
discovered that aspirin, the cheapest drug around, in the public domain, actually thinned the blood which
helps the heart.

.......Keep in mind this drug, aspirin had been out there for many years. It was out there in the 1920s..
After the above study noted the benefits, some price increase happened ...Not much but a little.

You can get them for 3cents a pill, but at some places less than that. Aspirin has been out there
for so long, that nobody could claim it for their private drug. It was already out there in the
public domain It has always been cheap, but still is cheap....and a wonder drug too.

[Chainfire]

5. My wife gets a shot in each of her eyes each month to save her sight.

Two shots; $8,000.00. Without insurance she would be blind.

[woodsprite]

6. My Neulasta shots kept me healthy and on schedule

during my cancer treatment at about $7,000 per shot. If the enlarged lymph node they saw on Friday’s CT scan turns out to be a recurrence, I’ll be on Keytruda which runs about $150,000 per year.

[Mr.Bill]

9. We'll never know how many of our lives were saved

by Covid vaccinations, but it's a number somewhere north of zero, that's for sure. And they cost nothing to us.

[Stuart G]

11. Well said Covid Vaccinations saved a lot of lives. Rec your post to everyone.