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... in response to Teva Pharmaceutical launches Gianvi Tablets
  1. Generic drug as costly as the name brand
    Angry Female Angry Female United States says:
    June 7, 2010 at 7:52 PM

    It's crazy that the price of the "generic" version of Yaz costs $76 dollars. Generics shouldn't cost more than $25 dollars, still, Gianvi is the first generic that I know to cost only $10 less that the brand version of the same drug.

    As pioneer as Yaz is, it's had the generic version in Argentina for less than $20 dollars, actually, for only $50 Argentine pesos you get the same contraceptive in Argentina. Why us in the United States have to pay so much for birth control? Do they want to increase childbirth rates? Isn't it crazy that we're paying $76 dollars for something that offers the same level of prevention against pregnancy as a condom and we're also at risk of all the secondary effects? Pills shouldn't cost more than $20 bucks to become affordable to all of us women who work, get paid less than men for the same job, and still we are the ones paying month after month for something that kills our libido!

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    • Price of generic version of Yaz
      Robbie Robbie United States says:
      June 9, 2010 at 11:52 AM

      The generic is 20 dollars cheaper here without insurance. Yaz is about 76 dollars here.

      On my insurance Yaz is a little over 17 dollars-the generic is a little under 6 dollars. And birth control is more effective than condoms. Most condoms are put on upside down for one thing, so if you can remember to take one pill a day at the same time-hell you can miss a max of three I think and still be okay possibly (still use a back up like they say)

      Also not everyone uses birth control to keep from having birth. I take it so I don't bleed and cramp to death for two weeks with a break for a week. Just saying. Also Yaz helps with PMDD and heavy bleeding.

      And it awakened my libido instead of killing it.....but I didn't have any before I took it, so that isn't saying much.

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