[Mb-civic] GO TO COST CO
Sierra Pecheur
sierrapecheur at verizon.net
Tue Aug 2 14:16:30 PDT 2005
CHECK THIS OUT a friend sent this to me.
---- Original Message
>
> Take time to read this! it will shock you.
>
> Subject: GO COSTCO!!!!!!
>
>
> ..let's hear it for Costco!! (This is just
> mind-boggling!)
>
> make sure you read all the way past the list
> of the drugs
>
> The woman who wrote this and signed below,
> Sharon Davis, is a Budget
> Analyst out of Federal Offices in
> Washington, D.C.
>
> 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.
>
> Celebrex 10 0 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $130.27
> Cost of general active ingredients: $0.60
> Percent markup: 21,712%
>
> Claritin 10 mg
> Consumer Price (100 tablets): $215.17
> Cost of general active ingredients: $0.71
> Percent markup: 30,306%
>
> Keflex 250 mg
> Consumer Price (100 tablets): $157.39
> Cost of general active ingredients: $1.88
> Percent markup: 8,372%
>
> Lipitor 20 mg
> Consumer Price (100 tablets): $272.37
> Cost of general active ingredients: $5.80
> Percent markup: 4,696%
>
> Norvasec 10 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $188.29
> Cost of general active ingredients: $0.14
> Percent markup: 134,493%
>
> Paxil 20 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $220.27
> Cost of general active ingredients: $7.60
> Percent markup: 2,898%
>
> prevacid 30 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $44.77
> Cost of general active ingredients: $1.01
> Percent markup: 34,136%
>
> Prilosec 20 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $360.97
> Cost of general active ingredients $0.52
> Percent markup: 69,417%
>
> Prozac 20 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets) : $247.47
> Cost of general active ingredients: $0.11
> Percent markup: 224,973%
>
> Tenormin 50 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $104.47
> Cost of general active ingredients: $0.13
> Percent markup: 80,362%
>
> Vasotec 10 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $102.37
> Cost of general active ingredients: $0.20
> Percent markup: 51,185%
>
> xanax 1 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets) : $136.79
> Cost of general active ingredients: $0.024
> Percent markup: 569,958%
>
> Zestril 20 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets) $89.89
> Cost of general active ingredients $3.20
> Percent markup: 2,809%
>
> Zithromax 600 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $1,48219
> Cost of general active ingredients: $18.78
> Percent markup: 7,892%
>
> Zocor 40 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $350.27
> Cost of general active ingredients: $8.63
> Percent markup: 4,059%
>
> Zoloft 50 mg
> Consumer price: $206.87
> Cost of general active ingredients: $1.75
> Percent markup: 11,821%
>
> Since the cost of prescription drugs is so
> outrageous, I thought
> everyone knew should know about this. Please
> read the following and pass
> it on.
>
> It pays to shop around. This helps to solve
> the mystery as to why they
> can afford to put a Walgreen's on every
> corner.
>
> On Monday night, Steve Wilson, an
> investigative reporter for Channel 7
> News in Detroit, did a story on generic drug
> price gouging by
> pharmacies. He found in his investigation,
> that some of these generic
> drugs were marked up as much as 3,000% or
> more.
>
> Yes, that's not a typo.....three thousand
> percent! So often, we blame
> the drug companies for the high cost of
> drugs, and usually rightfully
> so.
>
> But in this case, the fault clearly lies
> with the pharmacies themselves.
> For example, if you had to buy a
> prescription drug, and bought the name
> brand, you might pay $100 for 100 pills.
>
> The pharmacist might tell you that if you
> get the generic equivalent,
> they would only cost $80, making you think
> you are "saving" $20. What
> the pharmacist is not telling you is that
> those 100 generic pills may
> have only cost him $10.
>
> At the end of the report, one of the anchors
> asked Mr. Wilson whether or
> not there were any pharmacies that did not
> adhere to this practice, and
> he said that Costco consistently charged
> little over their cost for the
> generic drugs.
>
> I went to the Costco site, where you can
> look up any drug, and get its
> online price. It says that the in-store
> prices are consistent with the
> online prices. I was appalled. Just to give
> you one example from my own
> experience, I had to use the drug,
> Compazine, which helps prevent nausea
> in chemo patients.
>
> I used the generic equivalent, which cost
> $54.99 for 60 pills at CVS.
>
> I checked the price at Costco, and I could
> have bought 100 pills for
> $19.89.
>
> For 145 of my pain pills, I paid $72.57. I
> could have got 150 at Costco
> for $28.08.
>
> I would like to mention, that although
> Costco is a "membership" type
> store, you do NOT have to be a member to buy
> prescriptions there, as it
> is a federally regulated substance. You just
> tell them at the door that
> you wish to use the pharmacy, and they will
> let you in. (this is true, I
> went there this past Thursday and asked
> them.)
>
> I am asking each of you to please help me by
> copying this letter, and
> passing it into your own email, and send it
> to everyone you know with an
> email address.
>
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>
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