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What It Costs Drug Companies To Produce Some of the More Popular Prescriptions
Do you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company to obtain the active ingredient in a prescription medication? Life Extension did a search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the active ingredients found in drugs approved by the FDA . . . These exorbitant profit margins also provide incentive for drug companies to get their patented molecules approved by the FDA, whether they kill people or not. . . . Take the cholesterol-lowering drug Baychol®, for example, which was removed from the market after killing 100 people. . . . The problem is that no life was saved because of Baychol®. Anyone who may have benefited from Baychol could have obtained the same results from other statin drugs. So when drug companies justify the high price of drugs because of research costs, remember that most of the so-called novel compounds they develop will not save a single life, as they are no different than what is already available. . . . Now that you know the outrageous profit margins on prescription drugs, you can understand why drug companies do almost anything to prevent competition from developing. Large drug companies intensely lobby Congress to pass laws that give them extra time of exclusivity, file lawsuits to delay generic competition, petition the FDA to stop the importation of lower cost medications, and go as far as to pay off generic companies to not compete. . . . Drug companies spend big dollars protecting their illicit monopoly, all of which is reflected in the price consumers pay for their prescription drugs.

Celebrex® 100 mg  $130.27     $0.60          21,712%

Claritin® 10 mg   $215.17     $0.71           30,306%

Keflex® 250 mg    $157.39     $1.88            8,372%

Lipitor® 20 mg    $272.37     $5.80            4,696%

Norvasc® 10 mg    $188.29     $0.14          134,493%

Paxil® 20 mg      $220.27     $7.60            2,898%

Prevacid® 30 mg   $344.77     $1.01           34,136%

Prilosec® 20 mg   $360.97     $0.52           69,417%

Prozac® 20 mg     $247.47     $0.11          224,973%

Tenormin® 50 mg   $104.47     $0.13           80,362%

Vasotec® 10 mg    $102.37     $0.20           51,185%

Xanax® 1mg        $136.79     $0.024         569,958%

Zestril® 20 mg    $89.89     $3.20            2,809%

Zithromax® 600mg 1,482.19     $18.78           7,892%

Zocor® 40mg       $350.27     $8.63           4,059%

Zoloft® 50mg      $206.87     $1.75          11,821%

posted by LoZo 7:35 PM