I am a heart patient on disability. The price of brand name drugs like Plavix and Lipitor is shameful compared to pharmacies in Canada, and Canada has generic versions of these drugs much sooner than the U.S. The Medicare coverage gap makes these drugs completely unaffordable to most retirees. It's a travesty. Gary

More on Makena

posted Tue, 29 Mar 2011

We recently told you about Makena, a preemie prevention drug that went from $15 to $1500 per dose overnight.

There's a good article in the Washington Post today with some more background about the drug and the FDA approval process. There has been a great deal of criticism in the news lately about this situation. As reported earlier in GoozNews, the National Women’s Health Network is calling this extortion and asking their members to send their message of outrage to KV Pharmaceuticals. Both KV and the FDA should be critiqued here. KV raised the price exponentially and without justification and FDA policies enable such monopolies.

This is just another example of unfair tactics by pharmaceutical companies and complacency on the part of the government. It further illustrates the pressing need for advocacy on the issue of drug affordability.

Tell Us Your Thoughts

How do you feel about having to pay more than everyone else for your medication? Tell us your story.

Recent Entries: