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I've been taking an SSRI called Luvox CR for a few years now. So far its the only medication thats worked for me, but there is no generic. Since theres virtually no insurance coverage for a brand name drug, it costs me $100 for a month's supply. Even with the $50 coupon from Jazz Pharmaceuticals, my copay is still $50/month. Before this drug, I was taking other SSRI's that were less effective for me including Prozac, Paxil, Klonopin, and what-have-you. The generics all cost around $5-$20 a month with insurance. Because of the patent on Luvox CR which will not expire until 2020, other pharms cannot reproduce the drug.
If they are waiting for more research and outcome on the drug before it becomes a generic, mind you this drug was introduced into the US in 1994 and already approved by the FDA. They might eventually observe a drug company homocide report as a side effect slapped on their fat, grimey, pharmaceutical asses. It disturbs me how those pharmaceutical bastards are ripping off the mentally ill so freely. It is always profits before people: No pay, no way. There is no way of justifying how drugs can cost more than $200 for a month's supply, when the same generic drug costs ten-folds less than that. It obviously does not take that much to produce a bottle. With $7 a pill, you might as well wear them around your neck like jewelry and trade them like a hot commodity.
Their greed is slowly bankrupting the overly burdened American economy. Pharmaceutical companies in the future will no doubt go bankrupt when their exaggerated profits no longer match their salaries and lavish expenditures. Unfortunately, the evils of this industry is deeply concealed under the broken health care system, unlike the boastful swindlers of the major oil companies making record profits during a recession, their agenda is well hidden.
Call me an ignorant commie, which I am not, but seeing the enormous amount of profit they're making and the amount of productivity that gets put back into society, and you can see that something is greatly disturbing. I'm not even going into the argument of over-drugging the population as "Prozac Nation" documentary would explain to you, but the burden of cost it puts on those in need. Shit.