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Tuesday, February 10, 2004In your item "Two for the Price of One" posted on 2/5, you quoted from a Detroit Free Press article: "Thirty Lipitor tablets sell for about $60 wholesale or about $260 retail while 30 tablets of Norvasc sell for about $45 or $200 retail, various Internet sites show." Your comment was "That's quite a mark-up from wholesale to retail. Maybe it's not the drug companies but the drug stores that are the source of our drug pricing woes." I wouldn't rely on Mr. Bennett's (the Detroit Free Press writer) Internet price checking. I don't know what Internet sites he checked but drugstore.com shows the following: Lipitor 10 mg 62.99 for 30 Lipitor 20, 40, or 80 mg 94.99 for 30 A little different than $260 Norvasc 2.5 or 5 mg $42.99 for 30 Norvasc 10 mg $59.99 for 30 Not even close to $200 The Walgreens.com prices were exactly the same for Norvasc as the above and for Lipitor about $5 higher on the 10 mg and 80 mg strengths. I sent Mr. Bennett an e-mail with much of this same information. Well, then. There you have it. posted by Sydney on 2/10/2004 08:15:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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