Pharmaceutical Company Hiking Price Of Drug That Prevents Premature Births From $10 to $1,500 Because Other Companies Can't Make The Drug

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Of course, American Middle Class and poor will pay for the Medicaid cost and insurance premium increases.

Next week, the cost of preventing premature childbirth will skyrocket when a drug given to high-risk pregnant women goes from around $10 a dose to $1,500 a dose.

The drug, called Makena, which has been made cheaply for years and is given as a weekly shot, could make the total cost during a pregnancy as much as $30,000.

Why? Because KV Pharmaceutical of St. Louis recently won FDA approval to exclusively sell Makena last month.

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