Humira’s Drug Formula: Start at a High Price, Go Higher
Humira really is a life-changing drug - but it is offensively, eye-wateringly expensive. Each auto-injector pen costs approx. £500; and I have to take one every 2 weeks. To put that in perspective, that&#x27;s a cost of about £1000 per month - which is <i>considerably</i> more than my mortgage. <i>My house costs less than my medical treatment</i>.<p>Fortunately for me, I live in the UK, where the NHS is able to help absorb these costs. In the US, I guess they aren&#x27;t so lucky - if I lived there, my Humira treatment would financially destroy me - and probably my entire family, too. It&#x27;s morally reprehensible for a company to have access to such a life-changing treatment and then proceed to charge such disproportionately vast sums of money (certainly, far beyond the cost of R&amp;D).<p>I suppose you could say that instead of crippling its patients physically (like their medical problems do), Humira cripples its patients financially - and I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s a great deal better.