Teva Pharmaceutical launches Gianvi Tablets

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!

When a generic hits the market it is rarely "affordable". It is very normal for Gianvi (generic for YAZ) to cost between $60 and $70, it's new. It takes years for the cost of generic to come down and even then you will see the price go up at times. There are other affordable oral contraceptives and also non oral. Many companies also have coupons available to help lower the out of pocket cost for the patient.  

I paid $35 for Yaz and now only pay $5 for Gianvi.

So far no complaints.

I am trying to debate on switching .... do you guys think this pill is as effective in the birth control are as YAZ or do you think it isnt as strong or is the same??

I was taking Yaz for a while and now it will be my first time taking Gianvi. Is it the same? I have no insurance and the brand went up to $82 and the generic is $62 but I hope it works like Yaz does...!

I do not have insurance and am currently paying 67 dollars for generic Yaz. Why does it cost so much to not get pregnant?

Why do you women with your negative insult hurling comments even post your unhelpful ignorant remarks?  I mean why bother?  I can only think that your lives are so miserable and you are so angry and bitter, that you surf around and try to belittle or insult others. Does it make you feel superior?  Does it make you happy?  Because any psychologist will tell you, you don't appear to be happy otherwise you wouldn't busy yourself doing what you did on this post. It's a shame there are people like you in the world. I'm sorry you are so miserable, insecure and disappointed with your life but you can seek help to change your state of mind and become healthy and happy so that maybe you can actually contribute positive to the world instead of propel hatefulness and ignorant misplaced anger.  Good luck to you both, and I mean that.  You truly need it.  

I have used birth control for 25 years and currently use it to maintain regular cycles, as well as for birth control.  I am married with 3 children and my family status is complete.  Vasectomies are not covered by my insurance and neither are my pills (I work for a Catholic company) so I get my yearly exam and prescriptions from my OB/GYN and then I take the prescription to the health dept to fill it.  I am in the highest paying income bracket at the health dept but I still get it at cost and it is WAY cheaper than going and filling it from any of my local pharmacies.  I know most health depts do not carry the brand name Yaz or Yazmin but they might have the generic at a reasonable price based on your family's income.  You should check it out.  

Has it ever occurred to you that a good portion of women take birth control because they are married and want to wait to have children? My husband and I use both condoms and the pill to keep us from having children until we are financially ready. we are being responsible. How DARE you call us women that are being responsible enough to know that bringing a child into the world would be a HUGE mistake. You seem like a bible thumping idiot, so would you rather have no birth control and a million more abortions? You are ignorant.