Small bottle. Huge racket.

One of the saddest and most shameful rackets today is prescription eye drops. These drops, generally used for the treatment of glaucoma, come in thumb-sized bottles designed to last one-month only. Today I paid $51.00 for one of those tiny bottles. I can afford it, plus I have insurance. Which doesn't mean that isn't a rip-off price. It is. The medicine can range in price up to $100s. And I repeat, it lasts for one month. Does it have to be that costly? Of course not. But the pharmaceuticals are only interested in making super profits, regardless of who suffers. And who does suffer? Seniors, of course, who are  mostly on fixed incomes. Imagine your mother is living on Social Security. She manages. Then she goes for an eye-exam. The doctor insists she needs to take these eye drops twice a day to treat her glaucoma. With insurance, they cost about $25.00 a month. Without it, completely unaffordable. So what? Live with glaucoma? She has no choice. As with everything else, Americans are sheep. We pay the insane prices. We don't question how long we're kept waiting by doctors who   greedily overbook. We don't want to be seen as trouble makers. I say make trouble, yell about greed, questions those who think they have all the answers. And when you pick up your eye drops at Walgreens, say, "I'm forced to pay this price. But these drops are too fucking expensive." And trust me, it will have even more of an impact if you are an adorable lady of 80-plus.

Note: I'd love to have someone at Allergen, Inc. explain to me why this tiny little bottle of liquid is worth almost $120.00. And also explain why equally small bottles from other companies are worth up to $300 or $400. And while they're at it, who came up with the scam of using only tiny bottles designed to last one month.