Actual Cost of Making Those Popular Prescription Drugs.

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Actual Cost of Making

Those Popular Prescription Drugs

 

From Dr. Betty Martini

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From JUDICIAL REFORM INVESTIGATIONS

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Thanks from another group for sending us the following:

Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the Active ingredient

in prescription medications? Some people think it must cost a lot, since many

drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We did a search of offshore chemical

synthesizers that supply the active ingredients found in drugs approved by the

FDA. As we have revealed in past issues of Life Extension, a significant

percentage of drugs sold in the United States contain active ingredients made in

other countries.

 

In our independent investigation of how much profit drug companies really make,

we obtained the actual price of active ingredients used in some of the most

popular drugs sold in America. The chart below speaks for itself.

 

 

 

BRAND NAMECONSUMER PRICE

100 TABLETS

COST OF ACTIVE

INGREDIENTSPERCENT MARKUPCelebrex 100 mg$130.27$0.6021,712%Claritin 10

mg$215.17$0.7130,306%Keflex 250 mg$157.39$1.888,372%Lipitor 20

mg$272.37$5.804,696%Norvasc 10 mg$188.29$0.14134,493%Paxil 20

mg$220.27$7.602,898%Prevacid 30 mg$44.77$1.0134,136%Prilosec 20

mg$360.97$0.5269,417%Prozac 20 mg$247.47$0.11224,973%Tenormin 50

mg$104.47$0.1380,362%Vasotec 10 mg$102.37$0.2051,185%Xanax 1

mg$136.79$0.024569,958%Zestril 20 mg$89.89$3.202,809%Zithromax

600mg$1,482.19$18.787,892%Zocor 40mg$350.27$8.634,059%Zoloft

50mg$206.87$1.7511,821%

 

Since the cost of prescription drugs is so outrageous, I thought everyone I knew

should know about this. Please read the following and pass it on. It pays to

shop around. This helps to solve the mystery as to why they can afford to put a

Walgreens on every corner...

 

On Monday night, Steve Wilson, an investigative reporter for channel 7 News in

Detroit, did a story on generic drug price-gouging by pharmacies. He found in

his investigation, that some of these generic drugs were marked up as much as

3,000% or more. Yes, that's not a typo..... three thousand percent!

 

So often, we blame the drug companies for the high cost of drugs, and usually

rightfully so. But in this case, the fault clearly lies with the pharmacies

themselves. For example, if you had to buy a prescription drug, and bought the

name brand, you might pay $100 for 100 pills. The pharmacist might tell you that

if you get the generic equivalent, they would only cost $80, making you think

you are " saving " $20. What the pharmacist is not telling you is that those 100

generic pills may have only cost him $10!

 

At the end of the report, one of the anchors asked Mr. Wilson whether or not

there were any pharmacies that did not adhere to this practice, and he said that

Costco consistently charged little over their cost for the generic drugs. I went

to the Costco site, where you can look up any drug, and get its online price. It

says that the in-store prices are consistent with the online prices. I was

appalled. Just to give you one example from my own experience, I had to use the

drug, Compazine, which helps prevent nausea in chemo patients. I used the

generic equivalent, which cost $54.99 for 60 pills at CVS. I checked the price

at Costco, and I could have bought 100 pills for $19.89. For 145 of my pain

pills, I paid $72.57. I could have got 150 at Costco for $28.08.I would like to

mention, that although Costco is a " membership " type store, you do NOT have to

be a member to buy prescriptions there, as it is a federally-regulated

substance. You just tell them at the door that you wish to use

the pharmacy, and they will let you in.

 

I am asking each of you to please help me by copying this letter, and pasting it

into your own e-mail, and send it to everyone you know with an e-mail address.

Judicial Reform Investigations

http://www.court.to

 

Further Resources:

For more information on conflict of interests in the drug and medical

industries:

 

Health Wars by Phillip Day

Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth by Phillip Day

The Mind Game by Phillip

 

 

 

 

 

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