A drug for high-risk pregnant women has cost about $10 to $20 per injection. Next week, the price shoots up to $1,500 a dose, meaning the total cost during a pregnancy could be as much as $30,000
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I'm waiting for the "pro-life" people create a firestorm of protest over this. After all, pricing the drug out of reach of so many pregnant women threatens of the lives of their "pre-born children".
I'm awaiting, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
This sucks. And from Canada, I can only look at what "our" expert, Brooke says on the subject (and what it means for us and our friend in the US). Even so, this sucks!!!
(Not So) AstonishingndrosenMarch 11 2011, 05:14:02 UTC
We'll make a libertarian out of you yet, Cat.
Or if I don't, maybe the FDA will. This is what happens when you give regulators their heads. The FDA has "protected" people from drugs that might save their lives, and has forbidden the publication of truthful information. By delaying the use of beta blockers in the United States for year after they were available in Europe, the FDA killed more Americans than the Viet Cong and NVA (at approximately the same time).
Re: (Not So) AstonishingndrosenMarch 12 2011, 07:20:25 UTC
This is what happens when you have the government grant a drug monopoly, and make competition illegal. Prices were much lower before, not because businessmen are all saintly, but because if someone tried to overcharge, customers could geta better deal elsewhere.
Re: (Not So) AstonishingcatsittingstillMarch 11 2011, 11:07:46 UTC
Thank you, I've played Eve Online. A libertarian universe is basically an asshole convention, and why would I push to have the real world be any more like that than it already is?
Even generally useful and competent entities sometimes make mistakes. The FDA may have made a mistake on this one. Probably their mistake was trusting a corporation to behave the way a decent human being would.
The solution to the behavior of corporations sure as hell isn't less regulation.
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I'm awaiting, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
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Or if I don't, maybe the FDA will. This is what happens when you give regulators their heads. The FDA has "protected" people from drugs that might save their lives, and has forbidden the publication of truthful information. By delaying the use of beta blockers in the United States for year after they were available in Europe, the FDA killed more Americans than the Viet Cong and NVA (at approximately the same time).
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Even generally useful and competent entities sometimes make mistakes. The FDA may have made a mistake on this one. Probably their mistake was trusting a corporation to behave the way a decent human being would.
The solution to the behavior of corporations sure as hell isn't less regulation.
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