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From: Dudley Delany
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 7:40 AM
To: mscured@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [mscured] Fw: [cancercure] Pharmaceuticals




-----Original Message-----
From: mkathryn59
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 1:30 AM
To: cancercure@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [cancercure] Pharmaceuticals

Let's hear it for Costco! (This is just mind-boggling!)
Make sure you read all the way past the list of the drugs. The
woman that signed below is a Budget Analyst out of federal
Washington , DC offices. Did you ever wonder how
much it costs a drug company for the active ingredient in
prescription, medications? Some people think it must cost a lot,
since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We
did a search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the
active ingredients found in drugs approved by the FDA. As we have
revealed in past issues of Life Extension, a significant
percentage of drugs sold in the United States contain active
ingredients made in other countries.
In our independent investigation of how much profit drug
companies really make, we obtained the actual price of
active ingredients used in some of the most popular drugs sold in
America .

Celebrex: 100mg Consumer price(100 tablets):$130.27 Cost
of general active ingredients: $0.60 Markup:21,712%
Claritin: 10 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets): $215.17 Cost
of general active ingredients: $0.71 Markup: 30,306%
Keflex: 250 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets): $157.39 Cost
of general active ingredients: $1.88 Markup: 8,372%


Lipitor: 20 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets): $272.37 Cost of
general active ingredients: $5.80 Markup: 4,696%

Norvasc: 10 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $188.29 Cost of
active ingredients: $0.14 Markup: 134,493%
Paxil: 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $220.27 Cost of
general active ingredients: $7.60 Markup: 2,898%
Prevacid: 30 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $44.77 cost of
general active ingredients: $1.01 Markup: 34,136%
Prilosec : 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $360.97 Cost of
general active ingre dients $0.52 Markup: 69,417%
Prozac: 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets) : $247.47 Cost of
active ingredients: $0.11 Markup: 224,973%
Tenormin: 50 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $104.47 Cost of
active ingredients: $0.13 Markup: 80,362%
Vasotec: 10 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $102.37 Cost
of active ingredients: $0.20 Markup: 51,185%
Xanax: 1 mg Consumer price (100 tablets) : $136.79 Cost of
active ingredients: $0.024 Markup: 569,958%
Zestril: 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets) $89.89 Cost of active
ingredients $3.20 Markup: 2,809
Zithromax: 600 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $1,482.19 Cost of
active ingredients: $18.78 Markup: 7,892%
Zocor: 40 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $350.27 Cost of
general active ingredients: $8.63 Markup: 4,059%
Zoloft: 50 mg Consumer price: $206.87 Cost of general
active ingredients: $1.75 Markup: 11,821%
Since the cost of prescription drugs is so outrageous, I thought
everyone should know about this.
It pays to shop around! This helps to solve the mystery as to why
they can afford to put a Walgreen's on every corner. On Monday
night, Steve Wilson, an investigative reporter for Channel
7 News in Detroit , did a story on generic drug prices gouging by
pharmacies. He found in his investigation that some of these
generic drugs were marked up as much as 3,000% or more. So
often we blame the drug companies for the high cost of drugs and
usually rightfully so. But in this case, the fault clearly lies with the
pharmacies themselves.

For example if you had to buy a prescription drug, and bought the
name brand, you might pay $100 for 100 pills.
The pharmacist might tell you that if you get the generic
equivalent, they would only cost $80, making you think you
are saving $20. What the pharmacist is not telling you is that
those 100 generic pills may have only cost him $10!

At the end of the report, one of the anchors asked Mr. Wilson
whether or not there were any pharmacies that did not
adhere to this practice, and he said that Costco consistently
charged little over their cost for the generic drugs.
I went to the Costco site, where you can look up any drug, and
get its online price. It says that the in-store prices are
consistent with the online prices. I was appalled. Just to
give you one example from my own experience I had to use, the
drug Compazine which helps prevent nausea in chemo patients.
I used the generic equivalent, which cost $54.99 for 60 pills at
CVS. I checked the price at Costco, and I could have
bought 100 pills for $19.89. For 145 of my pain pills, I paid
$72.57. I could have got 150 at Costco for $28.08.

I would like to mention, that although Costco is a 'membership'
type store, you do NOT have to be a member to buy
prescriptions there as it is a federally regulated substance. You
just tell them at the door that you wish to use the pharmacy, and they
will let you in.
I am asking each of you to please help me by copying this letter,
and passing it into your own e-mail, and send it to
everyone you know with an e-mail address.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/generic.asp
<http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/generic.asp> Snopes.com
<http://snopes.com/> confirms this.
Sharon L. Davis
Budget Analyst
U.S. Dep artment of Commerce
Room 6839
Office Ph: 202-482-4458
Office Fax: 202-482-5480
E-mail Address: sdavis@... <mailto:sdavis@...>







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