$830,000/oz ?

[theeedude]

Just picked up RX for Pataday (Olopatadine HCl 0.2% eye drops) Before insurance it was $140, I only paid $20 copay.
$140/2.5ml 0.2% bottle, means that Olopatadine HCl sells for $28,000/ml = $830,000/fl oz.
Head about to explode

 

[Proprioceptive]

Just picked up RX for Pataday (Olopatadine HCl 0.2% eye drops) Before insurance it was $140, I only paid $20 copay.
$140/2.5ml 0.2% bottle, means that Olopatadine HCl sells for $28,000/ml = $830,000/fl oz.
Head about to explode

 

[ElFenix]

wow, something actually more expensive than inkjet ink

 

[JS80]

I wonder how many billions spent to develop and market the drug

 

[Aharami]

 

[jspeicher]

I wonder how many billions spent to develop and market the drug

$10 for testing

 

[theeedude]

I don't know how much they spent on developing, hopefully not too much, I can't say it's working all that great after a couple days, though it says it's supposed to be fastest acting. But gonna give it a couple weeks before following up with my opthalmologist.
I am sure they spend a lot marketing to eye care professionals though. You kinda have to to get away with selling something for $830,000/oz

 

[Miramonti]

I wonder how many billions spent to develop and market the drug

Not as many as aspirin.

 

[hanoverphist]

wow, something actually more expensive than inkjet ink

and cellular data

 

[invidia]

But how many prescriptions can 1 oz of that stuff can be divided among.

 

[theeedude]

But how many prescriptions can 1 oz of that stuff can be divided among.

A lot, I am guessing it's gonna be dirt cheap when it goes off patent.

 

[SunSamurai]

Where are you getting $28,000/ml from? :O

Ahh 0.2%. My eyes glazed over that

I used to handle some reagents meant for cancer research. 0.1ml was around 300$ I cannot say if it was diluted or not.

 

[evident]

pataday rocks. helps my eye allergies go away during the summer

 

[IAteYourMother]

but if it were an alternator sized bottle, it'd probably be a lot cheaper per oz...

 

[SKORPI0]

You've been had... It's cheaper in Canada D:

Oh, BTW there are 29.57353 milliliters/1 US fluid ounce. US Fluid Ounces to Milliliters ; US_Fluid_Ounces_Millilters_Converter

So it's about $ 1656.11/ US Fluid oz. not $830,000.

Of course if you meant that $140 2.5 ml is 0.2% Olopatadine HCl.....

 

[IAteYourMother]

You've been had... It's cheaper in Canada D:

Oh, BTW there are 29.57353 milliliters/1 US fluid ounce. US Fluid Ounces to Milliliters ; US_Fluid_Ounces_Millilters_Converter

So it's about $ 1656.11/ US Fluid oz. not $830,000.

Of course if your meant that $140 2.5 ml is 0.2% Olopatadine HCl.....

But it's 0.2% concentration no?

 

[SKORPI0]

Of course if you meant that $140 2.5 ml is 0.2% Olopatadine HCl.....

But it's 0.2% concentration no?

That's what I was thinking OP meant, my bad. So if it's sold at $140/2.5 ml; 100% Olopatadine HCl should be $828,059/fl.oz.

This is interesting...... Olopatadine HCl showroom , most of then from China. Mostly sold in powder form though, not as a fluid/liquid.

 

[shortylickens]

I am NOT suggesting socialized health care is the answer to any problems, but, if it happens, the drug companies and medical equipment companies will have no one to blame but themselves.

 

[slayer202]

you're right, if you consider that you are only paying for Olopatadine HCl, as opposed to anything else in the bottle, the bottle itself, the cost to distribute, market, research, develop, etc etc

in other words, you're wrong

 

[Rockinacoustic]

I am NOT suggesting socialized health care is the answer to any problems, but, if it happens, the drug companies and medical equipment companies will have no one to blame but themselves.

Yet, billions of people owe their health and livelihood to the fact that these companies invented these drugs in the first place. Let's get over the pharmaceutical industry boogie monster.

 

[shortylickens]

Yet, billions of people owe their health and livelihood to the fact that these companies invented these drugs in the first place. Let's get over the pharmaceutical industry boogie monster.

Well, thanks for assuming my position and saying something irrelevant.
Now that you have that down, take it P&N and test it on someone like yourself.

 

[biggestmuff]

http://www.cockeyed.com/science/gallon/liquid.html

 

[SunSamurai]

Yet, billions of people owe their health and livelihood to the fact that these companies invented these drugs in the first place. Let's get over the pharmaceutical industry boogie monster.

"companies" did not invent them. "scientists" invented them "companies" exploited peoples need for them by placing the cost of many drugs so high, or withholding the drugs that the prices stayed high.

Its not like these companies are exactly struggling.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Just picked up RX for Pataday (Olopatadine HCl 0.2% eye drops) Before insurance it was $140, I only paid $20 copay.
$140/2.5ml 0.2% bottle, means that Olopatadine HCl sells for $28,000/ml = $830,000/fl oz.
Head about to explode

your math is wrong bigtime...

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Just picked up RX for Pataday (Olopatadine HCl 0.2% eye drops) Before insurance it was $140, I only paid $20 copay.
$140/2.5ml 0.2% bottle, means that Olopatadine HCl sells for $28,000/ml = $830,000/fl oz.
Head about to explode

A few years back I came down with Guillain Barre syndrome and was hospitalized for 5 days. During my stay, the hospital gave me five, 20 gram does of Immunogloblin G, which helped slow the disease. When I got the bill, I nearly passed out because the cost of the meds alone was ~$60k. Apprently the stuff is hasrd to isolate.