1. Someone punched meâ¦ in the neck. Iâm in a very specific type of Fight Club. The first rule is âwe punch people in the neck.â The second rule is âwe canât talk about it.â Shit, we should really switch those rules around.
Otezla is available in the U.S., but is dispensed only through a network of specialty pharmacies. The estimated wholesale price is $22,500 for a year of treatment. In Austria, the drug is available in all pharmacies, and a year of treatment costs health insurances about â¬11,000.
In 2014, it got FDA approval and hit the market for a list price of $575, an exciting new tool to battle the countryâs overwhelming opioid epidemic. But three years after Evzio came out, its cost has exploded to $4,500 per prescription. Like the pharma company Mylan did with Epi-Penâanother simple, life-saving drugâEvzioâs maker has raised its price as high as the market will bear.