/edsblog/is-big-pharma-learning-its-sales-tactics-from-street-drug-dealers/ Helping Americans get safe access to affordable medications since 2006. Sun, 01 Jun 2014 17:10:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 /edsblog/is-big-pharma-learning-its-sales-tactics-from-street-drug-dealers/#comment-208755 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:25:33 +0000 /edsblog/?p=1718#comment-208755 I just switched back to Nuvigil from generic Provigil because my insurance said the generic was cheaper so I had to prove that generic Provigil didn’t work for me before I could go back to Nuvigil. Provigil worked for the most part, not as well as the Nuvigil though, so I wanted to switch back. I don’t know if it was a mistake or what, but the Nuvigil was nearly $700 cheaper a month for 60 – 250mg pills. It was definitely more expensive when I got switched to the generic in July.

]]> /edsblog/is-big-pharma-learning-its-sales-tactics-from-street-drug-dealers/#comment-208600 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:38:20 +0000 /edsblog/?p=1718#comment-208600  @Adrenalize13      So here is another example of someone attempting to defend an unethical practice by calling it  “capitalism”.  CAPITALISM, according to Adam Smith, requires many producers (and many consumers) competing against each other in order to reach a fair and honest price. Cephalon, in this case, has a legal monopoly to control the price and production of their product for seventeen years. Then they seek another round of protection by claiming that they have invested huge resources into the development of a new drug (NuVigil) and must recover their costs before the drug can be classified as generic and open to competition.  Meanwhile, ProVigil is no longer patented and they must deal with the prospect of consumers being able to purchase it at a fraction of the cost of NuVigil- $4,00 vs $450.00 for a thirty day supply. So, they evade the intent of the patent law with the aid of their stable full of highly paid lawyers,by giving the exclusive right of production to a producer of the generic version. One producer, no competition, control over the price. Get It? This is not CAPITALISM any more  than the the sale of drugs on the street by “dealers” is CAPITALISM. What’s missing is an ethical component  that makes real CAPITALISM work. If producers and consumers do not control their greed and keep the market functioning as it was intended, we are all harmed. Producers who are honest, humble and service oriented serve us well. Those who prefer the temporary gains of monopoly are not CAPITALISTS.

]]> /edsblog/is-big-pharma-learning-its-sales-tactics-from-street-drug-dealers/#comment-208588 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 03:04:35 +0000 /edsblog/?p=1718#comment-208588 My husband’s doctor has prescribed Nuvigil 250mg twice a day.  It is costing $882 per month, and our insurance covers none of it.  Highway robbery!  

]]> /edsblog/is-big-pharma-learning-its-sales-tactics-from-street-drug-dealers/#comment-208572 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:19:45 +0000 /edsblog/?p=1718#comment-208572  @jdbearden just so you know, the generic provigil is out and it costs in excess of three thousand dollars amonth in the u.s.a.  not much less than the brand provigil.    it’s criminal.

]]> /edsblog/is-big-pharma-learning-its-sales-tactics-from-street-drug-dealers/#comment-208555 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:20:16 +0000 /edsblog/?p=1718#comment-208555 So, why hasn’t another company started making provigil since it is now generic?!

]]> /edsblog/is-big-pharma-learning-its-sales-tactics-from-street-drug-dealers/#comment-208544 Fri, 11 May 2012 22:42:26 +0000 /edsblog/?p=1718#comment-208544  @Adrenalize13 In fact, the strongest motives are other than desire for personal profit.  This is why when governments want to rouse their populations to mass homicide and suicide on the battlefield, they don’t propagandize about the marginal gains to their bank accounts soldiers can hope to realize, if they survive.  Rather, governements rant about “honor,” “duty,” “glory,” etc.  Clearly these are more powerful motives.
And the vast majority of corporate profits, including those from drug companies, go to the wealthy, not to the middle-class.

]]> /edsblog/is-big-pharma-learning-its-sales-tactics-from-street-drug-dealers/#comment-208543 Fri, 11 May 2012 22:34:49 +0000 /edsblog/?p=1718#comment-208543 Much ingenuity, etc., does happen for reasons other than pecuniary rapacity.  Newton and Einstein were inspired by intellectual curiosity, not by a passion to engorge their bank accounts.  The founders of Western civilization, the ancient Greeks, ridiculed the profit-motive as an inspiration for creativity and discovery.

]]> /edsblog/is-big-pharma-learning-its-sales-tactics-from-street-drug-dealers/#comment-208542 Fri, 11 May 2012 22:30:31 +0000 /edsblog/?p=1718#comment-208542 Patents are a government-protected monopoly.  They are antithetical to any truly “free” market. 

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