A Huge Overnight Increase in a Drug’s Price Raises Protests

Post by dijit » Mon, Sep 21, 2015, 2:17 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #112

dijit wrote: post #50

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No offence to you, but you're so capitalist it's to the detriment of human health and you should be ashamed. I'm asthmatic, My life can cease in a pretty painful way if I'm denied access to drugs- my illness is an easily preventable one, so why should I die gasping? You're right I'll pay anything to keep living.. I'll literally starve before I stop paying for my medication. But why would you wish that upon me? Becaus…

> you should be ashamed I know this is an internet convention of sorts, but please don't do it here, even when someone advocates bad policy. HN comments should be free of personal swipes, especially otherwise decent comments like this one.

Post by bhickey » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 12:34 AM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #109

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> Without samples of the original, it's impossible to prove a generic is equivalent. I know we're in FDA-land where logic doesn't rule, but this beggars belief. This is similar to the nonsense by which HFA inhalers knocking generic CFC inhalers off the market. Any competent organic chemist can tell you if you've got pyrimethamine or not. This isn't some exotic chemical. There's published spectra ( http://webbook.nist…

I don't see what's illogical about it. Generics get approval without extensive testing under the idea that they're equivalent to an already tested drug. How do you do that without ensuring its actually equivalent in all respects?