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this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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You had me curious so I went and looked it up, and it looks like emergency inhalers actually can be found for under $100, if only barely! TIL, I figured you needed insurance to cover it to even consider buying one.
Which drug did you look up? Albuterol can be bought for like $10
I was remembering the cost of my wife's regular-use inhalers (she used to have pretty bad asthma) which were over $100 each, but it looks like daily-use ones are different than emergency ones. It could also just be a US thing.
Having never had asthma myself, I never really thought to look up the differences or prices to be honest.
wtf? 100$ per inhaler for long-term treatment?
My inhalers cost my insurance 100€ for 6 (120 usages per inhalter = yearly dose)
It looks like some generics are pretty cheap, but many inhalers look to be unreasonably expensive here. Thanks US healthcare system :(
At least if you can find one of the generics, it can be under $40 it looks like.
No, you're right. Our cat has asthma and her daily use inhaler is much more expensive than the emergency one.
However, my brother is on the same medicine -- he just uses the over the counter nasal spray version. It's MUCH cheaper but I can't figure out how to use nasal spray with a cat 🤣
I'm in Australia, can't remember but it's under $20 I'm pretty sure