if it can be sold for $1.45 (as it is with medicare)... (Reply #6)

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Fri May 26, 2023, 12:01 AM

Grasswire2 (13,329 posts)

6. if it can be sold for $1.45 (as it is with medicare)...

...then think about how little the production of these ten pills cost the manufacturer.

Pennies.

And yet they want thousands of dollars for the frickin ten pills.

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12 replies	Author	Time	Post
Dr. wrote me a prescription for foot wound -- check out this price. [View all]	Grasswire2	May 2023	OP
It is an antibiotic used against resistant bacteria. If insurance is charging you that much, or you	JohnSJ	May 2023	#1
Rightl But with universal health care it would be $1.45.	dchill	May 2023	#3
as it is with Medicare	Grasswire2	May 2023	#5
Not necessarily with a Medicare part D plan.	JohnSJ	May 2023	#9
This is why people without insurance die.	Laffy Kat	May 2023	#2
Maybe not related, but......	MyOwnPeace	May 2023	#4
if it can be sold for $1.45 (as it is with medicare)...	Grasswire2	May 2023	#6
But...but...R & D	rubbersole	May 2023	#7
I did think for a moment about the cost of developing the med.	Grasswire2	May 2023	#8
Which ought to be against the law.	flying_wahini	Jun 2023	#12
We you on another antibiotic that failed to clear it up?	Warpy	May 2023	#10
No.	Grasswire2	May 2023	#11

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