My wife's med are so costly, Geodon for 90 days in the states $850.00. Ordered from Northwest Pharmacy for $195.00 90 day supply (generic not available in US) Something is very wrong with the system in the US. The drug costs are causing people to go without meds. Harold

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.

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