- Check for fair price online at : GoodRx.com, and HealthWarehouse.com
- Check for the "VIPPS" (Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Site) symbol, and NABP (National Association of Boards of Pharmacy) WITHIN the USA. Do not trust overseas Rx sites, especially from China to avoid frauds and counterfeits. Read terms carefully.
- Try pharmacies at Costco or Sam's Club. Compare the prices.
From BBC:
Judging by social media, Martin
Shkreli, the 32-year-old chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, may
be the most hated man in America right now.
He's been called a
"morally bankrupt sociopath", a "scumbag" a "garbage monster" and
"everything that is wrong with capitalism." And those are some of the
tamer comments.So how did a rap music-loving, former hedge fund manager suddenly become the target of online ridicule and even death threats?
His company recently acquired the rights to Daraprim. Developed in the 1950s, the drug is the best treatment for a relatively rare parasitic infection called toxoplasmosis. People with weakened immune systems, such as Aids patients, have come to rely on the drug, which until recently cost about $13.50 (£8.80) a dose.
But Mr Shkreli announced he was raising the price to $750 a pill. The more than 5,000% increase and his brash defence of the decision has made him a pariah among patients-rights groups, politicians and hundreds of Twitter users.
Other drugs companies have made similar moves raising the price of niche products, but few have so publicly and so unapologetically answered critics.
The backlash became so pitched on Tuesday that Mr Shkreli agreed to lower the price of Daraprim to an "affordable level".
Sources:
Who is
Martin Shkreli - 'the most hated man in America'?
By Zoe Thomas & Tim Swift BBC
News, Washington
