Originally Posted By: Clevy
By law generic meds only have to be 80% of the name brand option. Generic are cheap cause there is less in em.
It is cheap because they do not have advertisement to drum up all the demands of "ask your doctor about [name brand]".
Doctors prescribing name brand drug first when generic (or even mirror reverse image of generic small molecule drugs with identical pathway) is just plain wrong. Mother in law was prescribed some $300 medicine when wife found out that it is a new patented drug with the molecule that's mirror to an older version with patent already expired. Same operational pathway, targeting the same receptor, at the same dosage.
Why is the doctor not prescribing the old one that cost $5-10 but instead prescribing the $300 one? The hot pharmaceutical sales lady who take him out to lunch once a month would be a start.
By law generic meds only have to be 80% of the name brand option. Generic are cheap cause there is less in em.
It is cheap because they do not have advertisement to drum up all the demands of "ask your doctor about [name brand]".
Doctors prescribing name brand drug first when generic (or even mirror reverse image of generic small molecule drugs with identical pathway) is just plain wrong. Mother in law was prescribed some $300 medicine when wife found out that it is a new patented drug with the molecule that's mirror to an older version with patent already expired. Same operational pathway, targeting the same receptor, at the same dosage.
Why is the doctor not prescribing the old one that cost $5-10 but instead prescribing the $300 one? The hot pharmaceutical sales lady who take him out to lunch once a month would be a start.