KV boosts prenatal drug price 100-fold

[FreakinDJ]

KV boosts prenatal drug price 100-fold

KV Pharmaceutical Co. on Monday will start selling a newly FDA approved prenatal drug - at $1,500 per injection, more than 100 times its current cost.

The Bridgeton-based drug company did not invent the drug it now calls Makena, but recently obtained exclusive marketing rights as part of its long-awaited approval by the Food and Drug Administration. The same drug has been sold for years through wholesale pharmacies under the label 17P. And a growing number of doctors had prescribed 17P to prevent preterm births long before Makena's approval.

Until now, 17P has often cost less than $15 per shot and at times has sold for as low as $5.

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/article_55dbaf88-4ab0-11e0-ad73-0017a4a78c22.html

of course it is the Union's fault Health Care Insurance premiums are so HIGH !!!

[hatrack]

1. Why? Because they CAN!!!!

:puke:

[LiberalEsto]

2. Here's a little something I posted about this yesterday.

Fun with anti-abortionists posted 3/10/11

Now that the Food and Drug Administration approved a commercial version of a progesterone drug intended to prevent high-risk women from going into premature labor, raising the cost per weekly dose from $20 to $1,500, it raises some VERY interesting questions.

It might be heaps o' fun to try these out on your local anti-abortion folks or right wing radio hosts and watch them twist themselves into pretzels of illogic.

Given that some states are trying to pass laws requiring criminal investigations into ALL miscarriages, and some state or other is trying to make it legal to kill someone who is participating in an abortion, and

Given that K-V Pharmaceutical will charge $1500 per dose for a formerly $20 per dose drug that helps prevent premature labor,

Does this mean that women who can't afford the drug and consequently lose their pregnancies will be subject to criminal investigation, or legally shot dead by vigilantes for failing to come up with the price of the drug?

What if they need it for, say, 10 weeks at a cost of $15,000 in order to keep their pregnancies going? Will Right-to-Life pay for the drug?

Will there be criminal investigations into K-V Pharmaceutical for making it unaffordable for a woman to continue a pregnancy?

Will they also investigate the FDA for criminal activity for approving the drug?

How about the pharmacist and the doctor?

How about the insurance company that almost certainly will refuse to cover the exorbitant cost?

Does this mean that in some states it could be considered justifiable homicide to kill members of the executives of K-V Pharmaceutical? And will Right-to-Lifers go out there and bravely pull the triggers on them?

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[Mz Pip]

3. Write this up as a formal letter

and mail it to that twit in Georgia (I think) who wants all miscarriages investigated. Post it on his website if he has one.

Thing is these right-to-lifers rarely think through the long term ramifications of what they propose.

[LiberalEsto]

5. These right-to-lifers rarely think PERIOD. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Next step: Court orders iniated by obstetricians to force their maternity patients

to have this drug administered in order to "save the life of a child", which also means coercing them to pay the $1,500.

[LiberalEsto]

6. I can see the lawsuits a-comin'

This could end up as a legal feeding frenzy.