$ Pharmaceutical Prescription Drug Costs &
Mark-Up
circa 2007
I think all everyone would enjoy learning what the profit margins of the major drug companies are.
We are well aware that many of you
have been duped into the falsehood that the medicines you use are expensive to make.
You must realize that this industry has no interest
in producing any medicine that cannot be patented, after all if they cannot protect themselves from
duplication by third companies,
otherwise they will be forced to sell at a reasonable price.
Drug* # Selling price$ Production cost Profit Margin %
( per 100 tablets )
Celebrex 100 $ 130.27 .60 21,712
Claritin 100 $ 215.17 .71 30,306
Keflex 100 $ 157.39 1.88 8,372
Prevacid 100 $ 44.70 1.01 34,136
Paxil 100 $ 220.27 7.60 2,898
Prilosec 100 $ 360.97 .52 69,417
Prozac 100 $ 247.47 .11 224,973
Lipitor 100 $ 227.37 5.80 4,696
Norvasc 100 $ 188.29 .14 134,493
Tenormin 100 $ 104.47 .13 80,362
Vasotec 100 $ 102.37 .20 51,185
Xanax 100 $ 136.79 .03 569,958
Zestril 100 $ 89.89 3.20 2,809
Zithromax 100 $ 1,482.19 18.87 7,892
Zocor 100 $ 350.27 8.63 4,059
Zoloft 100 $ 206.87 1.75 11,821
*Information from Life Extension Institute
*All drug names are trademarked ® by the various producers
The fact is, most of these prescription drugs can be replaced by homeopathic natural medicines that cost a
small fraction of the ridiculous and greedy mark-up price.
Doctors, who are often stockholders in drug producing firms and not schooled in homeopathic medicine,
always prescribe drug company produced artificial chemcial products. A majority of doctors however do not use
them because of the often-undesirable side effects.
The FDA and the AMA work in conspiracy in support of the pharmaceutical industry, which is after trial lawyers the
second largest contributor to political campaigns.
