Here is a shocker: I deal with direct costs for medications and we all pay as much as 100 times the cost wholesale. On average the costs retail over wholesale is not less than 5 times. Tablets that cost $2 I have seen cost nearly $100 in a hospital or pharmacy, such as Zyvox.
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The basic idea is that we all ought to be keeping two or three kinds of antibiotics on hand on general principles, as well as acyclovir for shingles or any other sort of herpes virus thing. Acyclovir cures some other kinds of virus problems but it's not gauranteed.