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re: I just found out my prescription would cost $1200 for a 30 day supply w/o insurance
Posted on 7/9/21 at 6:36 am to The Spleen
Posted on 7/9/21 at 6:36 am to The Spleen
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This is horrible advice to someone with major depressive disorder.
Are you fricking stupid or something? Exercise, losing weight, stop/ limit drinking is horrible advice? I never said stop taking meds ,but he should definitely try some of the things I mentioned.
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Posted on 7/9/21 at 6:38 am to StringedInstruments
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1. Why?
2. How costly?
If a prescription costs $1200/month, a mere 10k people taking it would net $144 million a year.
The pharma companies are investing in expensive R&D on all kinds of medicines, most of which never work out. THAT must be paid for as well.
We have a free market system, so if pharma companies are making too much money more pharma companies will spring into existence to compete and drive prices down. The problem is that our approval process is so slow that competition is artificially kept off the market for too long. Also, patents protect them from competition.
The drugs that are expensive are newer drugs that are still protected from competition by patents. If you regulate away these huge profits, then the drugs will never be invented in the first place.
Posted on 7/9/21 at 6:38 am to EST
Brexpiprazole? How bad is your depression baw? Also there are cheaper similar drugs.
Posted on 7/9/21 at 6:38 am to EST
My son takes one that is $5500 a month and another that is around $9000. I get both for $0 with insurance and manufacturer coupons.
Posted on 7/9/21 at 6:40 am to EST
You could just get a hobby or something instead.
Posted on 7/9/21 at 6:41 am to stelly1025
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Exercise, losing weight, stop/ limit drinking is horrible advice? I never said stop taking meds ,but he should definitely try some of the things I mentioned.
Agreed. I think the other poster assumed you were advising to do these things instead of meds.
Posted on 7/9/21 at 6:44 am to East Coast Band
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Overnight hospital stay for "observation"? $15,000.
May be the charged rate but definitely not the reimbursed rate
Posted on 7/9/21 at 6:46 am to Penrod
quote:But when the process is sped up, people cry about the government wanting to inject you with poison.
The problem is that our approval process is so slow that competition is artificially kept off the market for too long
Posted on 7/9/21 at 6:48 am to EST
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feel a little guilty taking such expensive meds.
Don’t. Insurance companies are structured to plan around the occasional expense such as this. On top of that they screw over people people regularly so don’t feel bad for taking their money
Posted on 7/9/21 at 6:50 am to EST
Hope you never have to pay for Chemo.
This post was edited on 7/9/21 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 7/9/21 at 6:56 am to EST
My cancer med copay is $3600 for 30 days and I’m on Medicare part D. Donut hole sucks. It will only cost about $600 per month once I hit catastrophic coverage.
Posted on 7/9/21 at 7:09 am to Misnomer
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ETA Ridiculously high drug prices do burden Americans most. We definitely need to address this problem.
Trump was in progress of doing something about this, but retarded Karens couldn't handle a few mean tweets.
Posted on 7/9/21 at 7:10 am to EST
Not taking medicine because of a price you don’t have to pay is one of the dumbest things I’ve read on this site.
Posted on 7/9/21 at 7:14 am to EST
I take Creon (pancreatic enzymes) and it was 2500 for the first month. Found a manufacturer’s coupon and paid 5. The coupon was supposed to work for 12 months but it didn’t. I have Rx insurance but my deductible applies first.
Posted on 7/9/21 at 7:22 am to The Spleen
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This is horrible advice to someone with major depressive disorder.
Yes because the only way to help anyone nowadays is to just stuff them full of chemicals in a pill form.
This post was edited on 7/9/21 at 7:23 am
Posted on 7/9/21 at 7:28 am to Penrod
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Agreed. I think the other poster assumed you were advising to do these things instead of meds.
It was spleen.
That poster is
Posted on 7/9/21 at 7:32 am to EST
Our healthcare system as it is now is completely unsustainable.
Posted on 7/9/21 at 7:32 am to MoarKilometers
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Obviously... but research and clinical trials are pretty costly
But not as costly as marketing and sales.
Pharmacy Checker
Posted on 7/9/21 at 7:35 am to EST
There's three newer 2nd generation antipsychotics still on patent: Rexulti, Latuda and Vraylar. All of them run about $1,200 a month.
All are approved for schizophrenia. Vraylar and Latuda passed trials for Bipolar. (Rexulti failed its bipolar trial). Rexulti and Latuda both passed trials for major depression (not sure about Vraylar).
Anyway, I was on Rexulti and I gained about 15 lbs in less than a month. I said frick this and stopped. I then tried Latuda and it gave me terrible akathisia. Now I am on Vraylar and no weight gain and no akathesia. So far I am happy.
(Bipolar type 1 here).
All are approved for schizophrenia. Vraylar and Latuda passed trials for Bipolar. (Rexulti failed its bipolar trial). Rexulti and Latuda both passed trials for major depression (not sure about Vraylar).
Anyway, I was on Rexulti and I gained about 15 lbs in less than a month. I said frick this and stopped. I then tried Latuda and it gave me terrible akathisia. Now I am on Vraylar and no weight gain and no akathesia. So far I am happy.
(Bipolar type 1 here).
Posted on 7/9/21 at 7:37 am to AUstar
Everyone should use the GoodRx app which gives you potential discounts on prescription medications.
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