> obamacare caused the price of prescription drugs to increase.
At church Weds night a friend of mine told me that he went to the pharmacy to pivkup some medication that was recently prescribed for his son. The cost under his Obamacare plan - $1,600 for a 30 day supply!! He looked around abd found another pharmacy not mentioning his insurance plan - $218 a month. HUGE difference! I have a friend who works or a pharmaceutical company. He tells me the Americqn pulic is being gouged big time because the majority of the prescriptions they produce rarely ever cost more than $20 even with the legal fees taken into account. I asked why they charge so much and hw said, “because they can”; people have to have them to stay alive in many instances and they have a huge lobbyting machine to ensure thwy can keep them jacked up. Someone is lining their pockets and getting mega wealthy.
I was astonished at how much steroidal medications have risen in price.
A 60 dollar skin cream is now upwards of 200 dollars.
Well,I’m blaming the FDA for a lot of that cost. When it take close to a half billion for a drug to come to market, mainly because of all the testing the FDA requires, then naturally, the Pharma will need to charge more. Yes, Big Pharma is raking in a lot, but FDA is partly to blame.
It’s all crazy. I had the opposite experience. One of my son’s meds was usually under $20. I forgot to bring the new insurance card to the pharmacy and since we pay for all our meds anyway decided to skip running it through insurance first. It quadrupled the cost. Went home to get the card!
As I understand it, our insurance wasn’t paying anything towards the cost, but it set the price the pharmacy could charge. The price varies from day to day and company to company.