[servantboy777]

During my wife's cancer treatments, she had to have injections of a immune booster drug called Neulasta. We were charged $9713.00 dollars per injection. She had about ten injections.

I questioned the price of this drug to the oncologist. The syringe only had a small amount in it. Can't remember how many milliliters now, but at the time I calculated to an ounce of this drug. I held up a one ounce vanilla extract bottle to my wife and told her that this one ounce of that drug would cost around a million bucks.

This is outrageous. The drug companies always tout...we must pay for the research. I don't believe them. Is it no wonder we now have the ACA.

Doctors over billing the insurance, the insurance bobbing and weaving, hospitals charging exorbitant rates. The whole system is broken. We pay more for Rx drugs in this country than anywhere in the world. Shameful.

[AppyPappy]

Got one too. I sometimes take Colchrys for gout. $15 for 60 pills until one day I go in and it is $200+ for 30 pills. I didn’t need it so I complained and didn’t fill it. Later the price went back to $15 for 60 pills.

[wiggen]

i read another article on this that stated drugs are just 10% of the overall cost of healthcare. I know thats no consolation to you and i agree with your sentiment. Still i was stunned at that number. I was in hospital for a week. Bill was like 60k.