Re: [IP] FDA may let patients buy drugs without prescriptions
On perscription drugs...it is a rip off to the insurance company from the drug
companies...makes you wonder why they aren't complaining more??? The
insurance industry is BIG and should be screaming about what goes on with the
drugs. When I had no insurance, I could get my one drug from wal mart for
$4.00...insulin free from my doctor lol. Now I pay for insurance at the tune
of over $350 per month (includes my medicare payment) and that same drug is
$8.00 and insulin is $35.00 if it's not for the pump. If I buy the pens
(which I did get for free), they are $75.00 for a pack... Wow... my son has
no insurance and buys his NPH and Regular at wal mart for about $40
each...still too high when you think of all the diabetics so the range of
prices varies so much. I'd sure like to see drugs sold over the counter,
maybe some of these people who are on really bad drugs would get off
them...like Staten...doctors love to put you on Lipitor but don't tell you it
will cripple you eventually. I thought I had MS, I needed a cane to walk and
getting out of a chair was out of the question. I stopped taking the lipitor
after reading the side effects and gradually my legs got better. I have some
permanent damage from the drug to my muscle, they are weak now but at least I
walk and some days I actually can jog around...this from someone who was doing
aerobic's before lipitor. Horrible drug, same with the blood thinners. they
cause stroke and dementia but what theheck, the drug companies are getting
rich on rat poison Not saying they should not be used after a surgery but
people are on these drugs for life!!!
Carole A. Davis
In God We Trust
-----Original Message-----
From: Denise <email @ redacted>
To: IP <email @ redacted>
Sent: Tue, May 1, 2012 9:37 am
Subject: Re: [IP] FDA may let patients buy drugs without prescriptions
How ironic. I've just read Breakthrough, which has a much longer title.
It's about Elizabeth Evans Hughes and the discovery of insulin.
Insulin was discovered by Banting and Best (and also Collip and McLeod)
after a great deal of effort and infighting. Up until the advent of
insulin, drugs were sold, period. No prescriptions. There was such a
shortage of insulin at the start. The University of Toronto could not
produce enough, so they partnered with Eli Lilly and Co. Even so, it
was distributed by doctors. Elizabeth Hughes kind of skipped to the
head of the line, but she was very close to death after 5 years on a
starvation diet.
Ever after that, the great prescription industry started...
Denise B.
On 5/1/2012 9:02 AM, Stephen Golden wrote:
> I could not get to this article, However I am wary of allowing prescription
> drugs being changed to over the counter status as most insurance companies
> use this as an excuse to stop paying for it. I have found that usually the
> price doesn't fall that much, however now I need to pay the full amount but
> rather than my co-pay. Also note that when you get a prescription and it
> says your co-pay is $20 list is $345 that list is bogus. I have 1 drug I
> take that it shows my copay as $20 for a 1 month supply and a savings of
> $297, however when I purchases it as cash without my insurance I paid
> $19.50.
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