Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active
ingredient in prescription medications? Some people think it must cost a
lot, since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We did a
search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the active
ingredients found in drugs approved by the FDA. As we have revealed in
past issues of Life Extension, a significant percentage of drugs sold in
the United States contain active ingredients made in other countries.
In our independent investigation of how much profit drug companies
really make, we obtained the actual price of active ingredients used in
some of the most popular drugs sold in America. The chart below speaks
for itself.
BRAND NAME OF DRUG-CONSUMER PRICE 100 TABS-COST OF GENERAL ACTIVE INGREDIENTS-% MARKUP
Celebrex 100 mg $130.27 $0.60 21,712%
Claritin 10 mg $215.17 $0.71 30,306%
Keflex 250 mg $157.39 $1.88 8,372%
Lipitor 20 mg $272.37 $5.80 4,696%
Norvasc 10 mg $188.29 $0.14 134,493%
Paxil 20 mg $220.27 $7.60 2,898%
Prevacid 30 mg $44.77 $1.01 34,136%
Prilosec 20 mg $360.97 $0.52 69,417%
Prozac 20 mg $247.47 $0.11 224,973%
Tenormin 50 mg $104.47 $0.13 80,362%
Vasotec 10 mg $102.37 $0.20 51,185%
Xanax 1mg $136.79 $0024 569,958%
Zestril 20 mg $89.89 $3.20 2,809%
Zithromax 600mg $1,482.19 $18.78 7,892%
Zocor 40mg $350.27 $8.63 4,059%
Zoloft 50mg $206.87 $1.75 11,821%
Since the cost of prescription drugs is so outrageous, I thought
everyone I know should be informed about this. Please read the following
and pass it on.
Of course, you still have to add labor and advertising costs and other
overhead (Management salaries, etc.) plus recovery of research costs.
Then the pharmacists & other "middle men" get their share of the selling
price.
Even so, it seems that medicines may be overpriced by as more than 150%
unless they are recovering research costs in less than 5 or 6 years and
if that s the case, the prices should go down considerably after 4 or 5
years. I suppose the excess profits are gong to upper level management
and to shareholders.I did a search on Google and find the website:
http://www.importeddrugs.com/hi_drug_prices.htmI apologize for the bad formatting of the paragraphs and chart, but didn't feel a need to "correct" them since the website link is available.
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