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hims sells the generic version for a fraction of the price but you have to do regular injections

• Someone1234 2y ago
  "hims" is selling Compound Pharmacy drugs, which will be made illegal soon. Soon your options will be $1000-1500/month from the two big drug companies. They're meant to have a vial-needle version, but it is $600/month and you can only do it for up to 5-months and a low max dose. So it isn't a real program, but rather a way to avoid critique from legislators.
  • _heimdall 2y ago
    Why are they making it illegal? Is there an issue with the compound, or is it an issue if lobbyists protecting the more profitable drug?
    • wcfields 2y ago
      It’s “legal” because of the lack of supply in critical medications so the FDA gives a variance to allow compound pharmacies to produce/sell critical medications until supply issues are resolved.
      • EasyMark 2y ago
        Seems to me there is a lack of supply for low cost semaglutide (and similar). That should be enough for the FDA to say “I’ll allow it”