How Stupid Does The Pharmaceutical Company Think We Are?

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They make a huge deal on how they made Claritin and Zyrtec over the counter to where you dont have to have a prescription for it (at least in the USA) well if you do the math and you had prescription insurance before then im sure that most of you have realized that the price of it being OTC is MORE expensive than the copays.. yeah your not paying full prescription price as you would if you hadnt had insurance BUT if you had then here is how it would break down.. i know with my insurance my copays are like 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50 and up.. or something like that for a month supply.. well on both i was paying AT MOST 25 but i think it was usually like 10-15 dollars.. well if you buy it how it is now then it breaks down to this claritin (based upon walgreens prices) $5.99 for FIVE pills.. a month $23.96 plus tax.. im pretty sure i was like paying 10-15 so that is at LEAST 8-10+ BUCKS MORE A MONTH!! http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?CATID=100094&navAction=jump&navCount=0&skuid=sku385410&id=prod385409 Zyrtec (based again on walgreens prices) is $14.99 for 14 so to get almost a month it would be $29.98 and i think i paid 10 bucks in copay so that would be a 19.98 hike in what i would pay http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?CATID=100094&navAction=jump&navCount=2&skuid=sku3663982&id=prod3665136 like i said if you DONT have insurance this is a godsend.. but if you did your probably getting screwed!!