> I cannot believe how much this stuff costs presumably in the USA! > ... > Why is it so much more expensive in the US for these drugs? I’m struggling to und

> I cannot believe how much this stuff costs presumably in the USA! > ... > Why is it so much more expensive in the US for these drugs? I’m struggling to understand how a place with a way more massive economy and no doubt higher demand, but also more supply, is paying these insane prices?! Yeah, this is one of the places where pricing is broken a bit. I guess that GDP number has to come from somewhere. > I just bought a box of Saxenda (liraglutide) (5 pens + 100 needles) yesterday for $492 which is like the equivalent of $300USD and I didn’t use insurance or anything to pay. > > All up including the cost of getting my Dr to do the prescription it cost me $511. Which where I live this is considered expensive because most medications are free except for certain ones like saxenda. The hardest part of accessing GLP1’s where I live is that I’m in a tiny country and the manufacturers only supplies a small amount, so waitlists for the drugs are like 5 months long. I do wonder how long until we see more international sales of these drugs... Found a super high quality article on this from KKF[0] -- it looks like we may be making some progress on allowing more international drug importing soon. [0]: https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/10-faqs-on-prescription-drug-importation/ https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/10-faqs-on-prescrip...