The financial raping of America by Big Pharma has just achieved a new milestone with the impending launch of a Hepatitis C drug that costs $1,000 a pill. If you’ve ever wondered why U.S. health care is so unaffordable and inaccessible — and why health insurance costs are bankrupting businesses and municipalities across the nation — this is exactly why. The same drug that sells for $1,000 a pill in the USA — named “Sovaldi” — sells for just $10 in Egypt, or 1/100th the USA price.
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American Greed
Who do you think helped writing obamacare?
The drug companies are spending so much money advertising prescription drugs on TV, magazines and who knows where else, that the prescription drugs are unaffordable to so many people because they don't have prescription coverage. I don't understand why they do this when they should be marketing to the doctors who have to write the prescriptions! This has to be part of the reason they are so expensive.
521 they do market to the docs. Which is why the docs reach for antibiotics every time you come in with a scratchy throat even though they know its likely a viral infection. It's also why half the kids at school line up for their meds each day at lunch.
FDA supports feeding us cancerous foods...corporation farming...and FDA supports big pharma in providing drugs to keep us alive long enough to suck us dry...they dont cure much.
Some doctors get paid more for providing chemotherapy too
With that markup, you could fly to Egypt, purchase the pills and fly home for the cost of 1-2 pills in the US.
This is the same story on Cancer drugs, the same drug is used by Vets to treat livestock and other animals for 1 or 2 dollars a tablet, but when prescribed to a human, it is $50 a tablet!
Obama care will solve all these problems. Yea, right.
There's your real problem with healthcare right there!
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