Monthly rip-off.

Some posts bear repeating. For instance: Eye care pharmaceutical manufacturers are amoral thieves. Every month they rip off millions of people with glaucoma, most who can ill afford the monthy—repeat monthly—medication necessary to ward of blindness, like poorer African Americans and seniors on fixed incomes. A tragedy because glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the world, according to the World Health Organization. Moreover blindness from glaucoma is 6 to 8 times more common in African Americans than Caucasians. I wonder why? Could it be that lower income sufferers cannot afford the monthly preventative eye drops necessary to control glaucoma. Nor can many elderly sufferers of any race. After all, each tiny bottle, designed to last only a month, is often astronomically priced to greatly reward those who make it, and doom most of those who need it. I picked up my monthly prescription today  which, with a co--pay, cost $5, and almost immediately lost it. I was told the replacement would cost me full price: $160.00! How many uninsured people do you know who can afford $160.00 a month for eye drops? And do you really believe that in order to make a profit these companies must charge prices that range from $50 to well over $150.00 a bottle—no, not even a bottle, a vial—the size of a finger tip? Of course not. It's piracy. I am sure if I knew the cost of the formula I would hate these greedy bastards even more.