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I bought one yesterday for $12. The USA is fucked.
Ok my $12 was for Salbutamol not the Fluticasone/Salmeterol Cole needed, that would have cost me $35 (AUD that is)
It's even worse than it seems! This is according to his family, who is suing:
Not only was the price of his normal inhaler jacked sky high without any notice, there were actually several "$5 alternative options" available that neither his insurance nor his pharmacy made him aware of.
Yeap after years of getting my scripts filled at CVS or Walgreens, I recently started getting them filled at the hospital i work at. Man, having a decent pharmacist makes a huge difference. The first round of scripts I had filled one of the pharmacists called asking if I needed a specific version of any of my scripts. They ended up switching my thyroid medication that was costing me a ton every month because for some reason my doc had accidentally selected a gel coating.
If we just allowed Medicare to negotiate pricing with pharmaceutical companies like every other nation with a tax funded medical program we wouldn't have any of these problems.