Prices should be controlled. How can you hike prices Nat a time like this? Greed
This is depressing. Profiting off people’s suffering. I hate how British healthcare is slowly going the same way as US healthcare.
>children are dying quick this is a great opportunity to price gouge!
Truly grim…
Someone proposed a nationalised drug company at last election. Can’t remember who.
Lovely, I currently have three children with Scarlett fever, it was a struggle to get the antibiotics because there is an outbreak in our school… I’m so glad other families will continue to struggle to obtain meds while people profit from the suffering of our children…. Truly horrible…
>”What’s important is patients are still able to access antibiotics, which they are,” a spokesperson said.
That wasn’t what all the parents were being told at the pharmacy I was in the queue for yesterday, when they were all being turned away being told the pharmacy had no stock.
Oh that’s right, everyone voted tory didn’t they. I remember now
Colour me shocked! Pharma owners are evil and should be treated as such. 🙂
Standard supply and demand
Capitalism at its finest
This is capitalism functioning as designed. If you don’t like this you don’t like capitalism.
The market price is where the supply and demand intersect.
Demand for medication is not exactly elastic, but the supply side it.
Increasing the price is how the market satisfies the demand.
(The alternatives would be shortages, or government planning.)
People don’t matter. The environment doesn’t matter. Animals don’t matter. Profit is King.
They interviewed a chemist yesterday on the Jeremy Vine show. The price of the med has gone up from £1 per dose to £12 ! He gets £1.80 per dose from the NHS despite the rise.
My kid has strep. I went to the local pharmacy two days ago and while they said they were out of tests due to demand, they were able to prescribe antibiotics anyway and they were like £10.
I understand that it’s supply and demand but it’s just playing with peoples’ lives at this point.
Why is no one ever asking where this sudden strep A emergency came from? Why is it suddenly a few dozen children are dead in a matter of weeks from the same disease?
Why the fuck are companies allowed to do this. Surely by now there should be a way to block companies from doing this.
So another profiteering adventure again, this is disgraceful. People get sick equals people make money by jacking prices to the moon
That’s just morally wrong. I can’t cope with that, it’s disgusting. Actually stomach churning. Profiting off desperate parents fear stricken for their poorly children. Media has done an excellent job scaremongering yet again.
Cool so if nurses and doctors are also in demand, it’s time to pay them more. If that’s what we’re doing….
Reddit learns that supply and demand applies to health care, pharmaceutical companies divert resources away from more profitable drugs to meet demand so naturally we can expect price rises. Its better than the alternative of just running out
They’re generic drugs, usually very cheap, and the prices increases are driven by temporary very high demand. You can check the historical prices here:
Amoxicillin oral suspension cost hardly anything from Jan – June earlier this year. An increase in price limits the likelihood of shortages. If the price was kept the same they’d be totally out. It’s temporary and will resolve quickly
You still pay the same as you would for any other drug because the NHS subsidizes it.
Market conditions always exist, we’re just lucky that we live in a country that insulated the most vulnerable from them (for now…)
Strip them of their patents and buy generics. Its time to bring the pharma companies to heel.
My son has scarlet fever. We went to the doctors yesterday and he was unable to prescribe the “right” antibiotic as it is not available (in Leeds, so not a small place). He prescribed another antibiotic and advised that of the 6 pharmacies within walking distance of where I live, only one had any stock, and that “stock” was three bottles only.
Lol when did you last pay for your antibiotics in the UK?
The headline ‘prices hiked up to take advantage of demand’ shows little understanding of economics.
Not that the PM or people in charge will notice, they all have private care.
Why are some humans so fucking shitty to eachother?
Jesus, pretty sure S. pyogenes doesn’t only cause strep throat. Also, pretty sure amoxicillin doesn’t only kill S. pyogenes, it’s a broad-spectrum antibiotic so treats a huge array of infections, no fookin’ need for it to be that expensive.
It doesn’t matter if they were 1p or £20,000 each there’s none left. I work in a pharmacy and have been trying to order any antibiotic for 4 days. The suppliers are out.
Also please stop shouting at the pharmacy team about it. There’s nothing we can do.
Yet again outsourcing everything comes back to bite us in the arse. The raw materials are sourced from China.
China itself is experiencing a shortage of ibuprofen and paracetamol at the moment and most of the world sources the raw materials from there. Expect shortages of those next.
These are all WHO essential medicines. They very much should be some produced domestically.
The UK is becoming more indistinguishable from the US with each passing day
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Prices should be controlled. How can you hike prices Nat a time like this? Greed
This is depressing. Profiting off people’s suffering. I hate how British healthcare is slowly going the same way as US healthcare.
>children are dying quick this is a great opportunity to price gouge!
Truly grim…
Someone proposed a nationalised drug company at last election. Can’t remember who.
Lovely, I currently have three children with Scarlett fever, it was a struggle to get the antibiotics because there is an outbreak in our school… I’m so glad other families will continue to struggle to obtain meds while people profit from the suffering of our children…. Truly horrible…
>”What’s important is patients are still able to access antibiotics, which they are,” a spokesperson said.
That wasn’t what all the parents were being told at the pharmacy I was in the queue for yesterday, when they were all being turned away being told the pharmacy had no stock.
Oh that’s right, everyone voted tory didn’t they. I remember now
Colour me shocked! Pharma owners are evil and should be treated as such. 🙂
Standard supply and demand
Capitalism at its finest
This is capitalism functioning as designed. If you don’t like this you don’t like capitalism.
The market price is where the supply and demand intersect.
Demand for medication is not exactly elastic, but the supply side it.
Increasing the price is how the market satisfies the demand.
(The alternatives would be shortages, or government planning.)
People don’t matter. The environment doesn’t matter. Animals don’t matter. Profit is King.
They interviewed a chemist yesterday on the Jeremy Vine show. The price of the med has gone up from £1 per dose to £12 ! He gets £1.80 per dose from the NHS despite the rise.
My kid has strep. I went to the local pharmacy two days ago and while they said they were out of tests due to demand, they were able to prescribe antibiotics anyway and they were like £10.
I understand that it’s supply and demand but it’s just playing with peoples’ lives at this point.
Why is no one ever asking where this sudden strep A emergency came from? Why is it suddenly a few dozen children are dead in a matter of weeks from the same disease?
Why the fuck are companies allowed to do this. Surely by now there should be a way to block companies from doing this.
So another profiteering adventure again, this is disgraceful. People get sick equals people make money by jacking prices to the moon
That’s just morally wrong. I can’t cope with that, it’s disgusting. Actually stomach churning. Profiting off desperate parents fear stricken for their poorly children. Media has done an excellent job scaremongering yet again.
Cool so if nurses and doctors are also in demand, it’s time to pay them more. If that’s what we’re doing….
Reddit learns that supply and demand applies to health care, pharmaceutical companies divert resources away from more profitable drugs to meet demand so naturally we can expect price rises. Its better than the alternative of just running out
They’re generic drugs, usually very cheap, and the prices increases are driven by temporary very high demand. You can check the historical prices here:
[https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drugs-and-pharmaceutical-electronic-market-information-emit](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drugs-and-pharmaceutical-electronic-market-information-emit)
Amoxicillin oral suspension cost hardly anything from Jan – June earlier this year. An increase in price limits the likelihood of shortages. If the price was kept the same they’d be totally out. It’s temporary and will resolve quickly
You still pay the same as you would for any other drug because the NHS subsidizes it.
Market conditions always exist, we’re just lucky that we live in a country that insulated the most vulnerable from them (for now…)
Strip them of their patents and buy generics. Its time to bring the pharma companies to heel.
My son has scarlet fever. We went to the doctors yesterday and he was unable to prescribe the “right” antibiotic as it is not available (in Leeds, so not a small place). He prescribed another antibiotic and advised that of the 6 pharmacies within walking distance of where I live, only one had any stock, and that “stock” was three bottles only.
Lol when did you last pay for your antibiotics in the UK?
The headline ‘prices hiked up to take advantage of demand’ shows little understanding of economics.
Not that the PM or people in charge will notice, they all have private care.
Why are some humans so fucking shitty to eachother?
Jesus, pretty sure S. pyogenes doesn’t only cause strep throat. Also, pretty sure amoxicillin doesn’t only kill S. pyogenes, it’s a broad-spectrum antibiotic so treats a huge array of infections, no fookin’ need for it to be that expensive.
It doesn’t matter if they were 1p or £20,000 each there’s none left. I work in a pharmacy and have been trying to order any antibiotic for 4 days. The suppliers are out.
Also please stop shouting at the pharmacy team about it. There’s nothing we can do.
Yet again outsourcing everything comes back to bite us in the arse. The raw materials are sourced from China.
China itself is experiencing a shortage of ibuprofen and paracetamol at the moment and most of the world sources the raw materials from there. Expect shortages of those next.
These are all WHO essential medicines. They very much should be some produced domestically.
The UK is becoming more indistinguishable from the US with each passing day