acptulsa
04-08-2011, 02:44 PM
A company called KV Pharmaceutical introduced something they called Makena. It helped prevent premature delivery. It got fast tracked through. Why? Because there was nothing new about it.
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/649631.html
Notice how it says in the article that it used to be mixed by pharmacists for about twenty bucks a dose, and the only advantage was that it was pre-mixed? So, KV began selling it at $1500 a dose. How did they get away with this? Did pharmacists really hate mixing it up that much? No, the FDA made it illegal for them to mix it up.
For a minute.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/kv-pharma-cuts-price-makena-costly-drug-prevents/story?id=13274910
Funny how we set up all this government to handle stuff for us, and just wind up spending twice as much time trying in vain to fix government...
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/649631.html
Notice how it says in the article that it used to be mixed by pharmacists for about twenty bucks a dose, and the only advantage was that it was pre-mixed? So, KV began selling it at $1500 a dose. How did they get away with this? Did pharmacists really hate mixing it up that much? No, the FDA made it illegal for them to mix it up.
For a minute.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/kv-pharma-cuts-price-makena-costly-drug-prevents/story?id=13274910
Funny how we set up all this government to handle stuff for us, and just wind up spending twice as much time trying in vain to fix government...