Massive pill price hike in the usa

from 1 doller to 18 dollers. thats steep.
souless. And when your on a low wage the pill is hard to afford.

No one much noticed, but thousands of family-planning clinics across the country went into a tailspin last month. They were reacting to a drastic price increase by Ortho-McNeil, a major supplier of birth-control pills and maker of the popular contraceptive patch. The company used to charge publicly funded clinics as little as a penny a pack for the pills. Then, as of July 1, the price of some pills jumped to more than $18 a pack. Ortho’s move was apparently legal under federal pricing rules. But it’s anybody’s guess as to why the company chose to do this now, without giving the clinics any real notice.


http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/08/23/the-pill-price-hike/