Separated at birth
Can someone explain what this is all about? How is this a good thing for the public at large?
Preventing preterm births just got 150 times more expensive, now that KV Pharmaceuticals has gained exclusive rights to produce a progesterone shot used to prevent premature births in high-risk mothers.
Although the shot has been available in unregulated form from specialty compounding pharmacies for years for $10 a pop, the Food and Drug Administration recently granted KV Pharmaceuticals sole rights to produce the drug, which will be marketed as Makena and cost $1,500 per dose — an estimated $30,000 in total per pregnancy.
Related link on FDA corruption.
Found by Al Cole.
#7–dusanmal==yes, thanks for the “other side.” I wonder if there is any “more” to it as well like a requirement to provide the drug for $10 for those who can’t pay? That is pure speculation on my part, just looking/imagining the equity of the position.
So, where is the report on their on going long term effectiveness study?
John Edwards is salivating…
Mike–good reference. I can’t “imagine” being him. Never really “that” close because the poor don’t vote but such a good message. Too bad, like any good trial attorney, he is a total fraud.
I really would like to know, why I don’t know exactly, what he really thinks about his life and the decisions he made.
He’s not stupid, he just acts that way.
Very human, almost a:
Stoopid Hooman.
None of this will cost anybody anything.
…..Obamacare!……..
#13 Name something that the Federal Government makes cheaper than it could be through private business.. if the government kept their slimy hands out of it.
Gasoline?
Airfare?
Automobiles?
My doctor?
My shoes?
What, exactly?
If you’ll just get over the myth that the FDA is acting for the consumers, you’ll suddenly realize that everything is laden with salt and sugar (in an attempt to give it some taste,) because the FDA is there for the food processors, not the food consumers.
You can eat shit as far as the FDA is concerned. In fact, they have such a strangle-hold on the food processing industry that you probably areeating shit.
It tastes like crap, for years and years in the wrapper.
The consumers who get bit by the first part of the sting also get fed the second part of the sting, about the drugs you have to take to get over the fact that you’re eating over preserved crap, and, most of which you wouldn’t need if you didn’t eat the crap in the first place.
The FDA is pure evil.
1. Find a cheap product already on the market.
2. Eliminate the competition by convincing a government regulator to assign you a monopoly.
3. Raise the price by a bazillion percent.
4. Profit ! ! !
Why are the wing nuts whining? This is their baby. It’s called “Capitalism”.
The FDA is charged with the safety and efficacy of ALL drugs sold in the US. The FDA is NOT allowed to determine or influence the prices charged consumers.
In this case, Squibb, the manufacturer of Progesterone dropped out in 1999. Many local pharmacies stepped up and “formulated” the steroid. The pharmacies were not equipped to test their product and there was a great difference in quality between each pharmacy. The FDA mandated one manufacturer for the drug and KV Pharmaceuticals stepped up. If another manufacturer wanted to produce the steroid the FDA would not able to prevent them except to regulate the safety and efficacy.
There is one study required to demonstrate effectiveness. The drug has already been studied previously by Squibb, other parties, and the National Institute of Health.
http://hydroxyprogesterone.com/17-pProgesteroneDeclaredSAFE.html
http://fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm242234.htm
#28 Agreed. This is exactly what the Puke’s ordered but somehow seems distasteful when served.
#29, Dallas,
You mean the “Regressives”?
Here’s a better link to the story
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/41994697/ns/health-pregnancy/
Ca-ching! Us Government revises human resource value upward to $9,530,000.
I’m starting to see how they come up with these numbers.
The U.S. Govt needs to collapse the same way the Russian government did — End both communism and fascism