Was recently talking about this with a friend who gets this from her doctor and is paying out the ass even with insurance, and another whose doctor refuses to prescribe it because "there is a shortage". Semaglutide is like $40 for a 5ml vial from Chinese labs (that's about 2 weeks at the highest dose), but we are trained to be afraid of self-medding or even talking to doctors about sourcing our meds outside of "official" pharmacies.

The cost of pharmaceuticals is so artificial. A vial of estrogen is like...hundreds of dollars if you buy it from a pharmacy, like $65 if you get it from a Brazilian weeb, and cheap as hell if you buy raws from china and compound them yourself? Makes no sense.

The government of Denmark salutes the American people and their sacrifice for making our line go up. Ozempic is currently the main reason why Novo Nordisk is one of the most valuable companies in Europe, and that company is almost single-handedly pulling Denmark out of a recession (on paper, most people here aren't doing too hot, but since when has our shitty fucking SocDems ever given a shit about that)

No sympathy, Americans have gotten the government they deserve. They keep thinking that continuing to vote for the "lesser evil" is going to get them anything other than evil.

“We subsidize every other country’s healthcare” is such a pathetic excuse lol. Weird that american greed stops when it comes to overcharging foreign customers for medicine

Does Ozempic do anything other than make you not hungry?

is it true that the drug works for weight loss by making you get nauseous after eating a small amount of food

With insurance I'm pretty sure its like 20 bucks a month in the USA. Goodrx though says anywhere from 930usd to 1100 usd

Y'all realise this is mostly because ozempic has become trendy in America as a weight loss medication because it came out a ton of celebrities were using it right?

Freedumb

A lot of this is probably price negotiation by those countries but how much of it is just charging based on people's income in each country? Things generally have to be "cheaper" in places that aren't the US Empire.