Hightower Lowdown

The prices on top selling prescription drugs keep going up, up and up. Pharmaceutical companies enjoy extraordinary profits from these price hikes, but consider, for example, the 4 million Americans infected with deadly Hepatitis C, which kills 10,000 people a year. Infected patients need a treatment that involves two drugs taken in tandem. Schering-Plough is the sole maker of one of these drugs, Ribavirin, and it charges more than $1,100 a month for it. That's more than people's rent or mortgage payments. In one year, Schering-Plough pocketed $214 million in sales of this Hepatitis C kit.

But along comes Fisher Pharmacy in Pittsburgh, Penn. They dealt with a lot of Hepatitis C patients, and they wanted to help them with a cheaper product. By studying the patent laws and finding their own source of Ribavirin powder, Fisher Pharmacy is now in the business of handpacking capsules with this life-saving drug according to the prescriptions of individual patients' doctors. Instead of charging $1,100 a month, Fisher Pharmacy can do it for $225 a month—a $900 savings!

The giant drug makers always say there's no price gouging going on, but here's a corner pharmacy that can compound pills by hand, customize them to the patient's need, and beat the mass-production price of Schering Plough by 80%! They'll make the pills for you too, contact Fisher Pharmacy by calling 888-347-3416.