Just when did the pill get to be so expensive.

[thundley4]

Virginian
 
Just when did the pill get to be so expensive.

I took it in the '70's before there was such thing as prescription coverage on any insurance policy.

It seems like I paid around $3.00 for a month supply and the dosage was stronger back then.
What made the price go up so high? R&D has been recouped long ago. The formula is not that much more to make. Could it be pure greedy profit? I can guess, but does anyone KNOW?

 http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002389125

murielm99
1. I asked that question of my doctor.

I remember paying $3.00, too.

She told me that one group had cornered the market and could charge anything they liked.

I don't know if that is true, but that doc did hate big pharma, and was not afraid to say so.

exboyfil
2. $9/mo.

http://nation.foxnews.com/birth-control/2012/03/05/9mo-birth-control-pills-available-target-3-miles-georgetown-law

Consider the source, but they say birth control pills are $9/mo. for those whose insurance does not cover them.

Also
http://www.reproductiveaccess.org/contraception/lowcost_pills.htm
which seems to back up the other article.

Other prices?

And there you have it. Birth control pills are cheap and could not possibly add up to $1k/yr or $3k/3yrs.  So the skank must have been buying many rubbers to prevent spreading her diseases to her partners.

[Evil_Conservative]

Oh no!  Not $9 a month!!!!!!11  Whatever are you going to do?

Forget the fact that it cost me more than $9 a tank so I can go to work and support your lazy ass.

[Freeper]

Oh no!  Not $9 a month!!!!!!11  Whatever are you going to do?

Forget the fact that it cost me more than $9 a tank so I can go to work and support your lazy ass.

The next thing they are going to want, is free gas to go pick up the free birth control.

[Carl]

The next thing they are going to want, is free gas to go pick up the free birth control.

The sad part is that that is likely true.

[JohnnyReb]

You know, she could probably get a little cheaper cell phone deal and use the savings to buy some birth control.......if she weren't such a slut.

ETA: Why is Ms Fluke, the slut, not asking for insurance companies to pay for mens condoms. We men need birth control too....you know, protection from child support payments and the diseases spread by sluts.

[Doc Savage]

I have access to wholesale drug prices.  Brand name BCP, such as Ortho Novum 7-7-7 cost the pharmacy about $1 per day for a 28 day dial pack.  Not real cheap, but, for $3000 that equates to 100 months.  Um, I think that is a bit more than 3 years.  Generic Lo-Ovral ( CRYSELLE TB 0.3/.03MGBARR6X28) cost $103.44.  Now, pharmacies sell at AWP (Average Wholesale Price).  The AWP for this product is $183.12.  Divide that by 6 and again you get 30 dollars per month.  I am sure that there are cheaper products out there, and when a company such as Walgreen's or CVS sells a product, because of the quantity that they sell, their prices are lower due to contracts.  

Trying to price drugs drives us crazy.  There are contracts from buying groups that lower the purchase price, insurance companies require that certain NDC numbers (that is the 11 didgit number you see on a product package) have to be used.  States MAC products (limit reimbursement to certain levelsand limit the product that you can use), and then insurance companies have formularies that have to be use first for the pharmacy to be paid if insurance is filed.  

All that being said, I am at a loss how any woman pays 3K for BCP's over 3 years.  If you walked into any pharmacy, paid straight AWP for Lo-Ovral at $352 for 6 months, that still only adds up to $2112 for 3 years.  A 4 dollar cup of coffee from Starbucks per day for 3 years = $4380.  hmmmmmmmmmm.  Maybe insurance should pay for coffee, that costs more.

[JohnnyReb]

I have access to wholesale drug prices.  Brand name BCP, such as Ortho Novum 7-7-7 cost the pharmacy about $1 per day for a 28 day dial pack.  Not real cheap, but, for $3000 that equates to 100 months.  Um, I think that is a bit more than 3 years.  Generic Lo-Ovral ( CRYSELLE TB 0.3/.03MGBARR6X28) cost $103.44.  Now, pharmacies sell at AWP (Average Wholesale Price).  The AWP for this product is $183.12.  Divide that by 6 and again you get 30 dollars per month.  I am sure that there are cheaper products out there, and when a company such as Walgreen's or CVS sells a product, because of the quantity that they sell, their prices are lower due to contracts.  

Trying to price drugs drives us crazy.  There are contracts from buying groups that lower the purchase price, insurance companies require that certain NDC numbers (that is the 11 didgit number you see on a product package) have to be used.  States MAC products (limit reimbursement to certain levelsand limit the product that you can use), and then insurance companies have formularies that have to be use first for the pharmacy to be paid if insurance is filed.  

All that being said, I am at a loss how any woman pays 3K for BCP's over 3 years.  If you walked into any pharmacy, paid straight AWP for Lo-Ovral at $352 for 6 months, that still only adds up to $2112 for 3 years.  A 4 dollar cup of coffee from Starbucks per day for 3 years = $4380.  hmmmmmmmmmm.  Maybe insurance should pay for coffee, that costs more.

So, basically you're saying, "A dollar a day keeps the abortionist away."

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

$9!!!

That's almost half a blowjob!!!

[Doc Savage]

What I really wondered was why a student, at Georgetown Law School (where the undergraduate tuition is crazy high), and I would imagine Law School costs are even higher, going into a profession that requires payment up front before any service is done, is concerned about $365 dollars per year.  I wonder if she is going to be going to work at a free law service earning 60K per year, or is she going to look for a place like the Firm?

[Ballygrl]

What I really wondered was why a student, at Georgetown Law School (where the undergraduate tuition is crazy high), and I would imagine Law School costs are even higher, going into a profession that requires payment up front before any service is done, is concerned about $365 dollars per year. I wonder if she is going to be going to work at a free law service earning 60K per year, or is she going to look for a place like the Firm?

She's an activist and a fraud, she's a woman 30 years old not a girl, she knowingly enrolled at Georgetown, a school run by the Jesuits, and she enrolled with the sole purpose of trying to force them into providing services that the Catholic Church is against. She's scum IMO.

[Kyle Ricky]

She's an activist and a fraud, she's a woman 30 years old not a girl, she knowingly enrolled at Georgetown, a school run by the Jesuits, and she enrolled with the sole purpose of trying to force them into providing services that the Catholic Church is against. She's scum IMO.

I agree. 

[Chris_]

She's an activist and a fraud, she's a woman 30 years old not a girl, she knowingly enrolled at Georgetown, a school run by the Jesuits, and she enrolled with the sole purpose of trying to force them into providing services that the Catholic Church is against. She's scum IMO.

[GOBUCKS]

Back in the day, birth control cost twenty-five cents in gas station men's rooms.
Of course the machines were labelled "For disease prevention only".

[jukin]

 A Liberal bitch and slut (BIRM) needed some reading glasses. I said I get mine from Walmart (which went into a whole other tirade by her) or the dollar store and have a pair everywhere I might need them for about $4/pair. What did said Liberal slut do? She got a pair of $400 magnifiers because...wait for it... they were freeeeeeee because her employer's insurance pays for it.

That ladies and gentlemen is why medical costs and their associated insurance rates have outpaced inflation, but not government spending increases, because the free market and individual responsibility are taken out of the equation.