That's great, but in this case even the generic costs $450 to $950 for a typical two week to a month bottle. I can't imagine how much the brand name costs if th

That's great, but in this case even the generic costs $450 to $950 for a typical two week to a month bottle. I can't imagine how much the brand name costs if the generic costs that much. There are some alternatives like blink health (I have no affiliation) that bring that cost down to about $45 by negotiating prices en masse, I assume. If that's not a broken system, I don't know what is. Clearly, these medicines could cost a lot less but they don't because companies' profits are more important than health in America. Or take genetic tamiflu (can't remember the name). $150 for one course. I'd rather risk the flu, which I recently have, than take it preventatively. Can't imagine how much that brand name costs either but it it's unaffordable even on an engineer's salary, what's the use of even having this drug? Even with my insurance it was over $110. What's the use of having insurance in that case? Still unaffordable. Still going to get sick. What a fucked up system.