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Originally Posted by costello
I personally found the piece irritating. Atypicals do have serious side effects too. And those side effects do sometimes cause stigma and non-compliance. You get the feeling the authors work for a pharmaceutical company.
My question is why are atypicals so much more expensive. My son's medication, olanzapine, is off patent, and he takes the generic. Nevertheless, it stills costs something like $400 per month - which the tax payer picks up the bill for.
Btw my son has never been prescribed one of the older APs - even before he was on Medicare.
The comments to the story were more insightful IMO.
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the $400 is because they can----the bulk of people are on medicare/medicaid and its required by a special law to be covered for those patients so they can charge whatever they want---this is why med part D wanted to cut the protection on ADs and APs---so the pharms would lower the costs---