I bet they cost 100% more here in the states. That's just how messed up our health insurance system is!
It would surprise me if it wasn't much much more than that. I recall getting on antibiotics a few times in the states and the cost of it was outrageous. A cycle of common antibiotics here in Vietnam is around 50 cents.
Antibiotics they give you for free now. A law was passed about that some time ago. Everything else is ridiculous. We have a couple pills that our dog takes that you can also get for humans. We pay $100 per month for those.
I am yet to encounter any drug that costs more than a couple of dollars at the pharmacies here and you don't have to get a prescription for almost anything... which is something that can destroy people's lives and I understand now why prescriptions are kind of a necessary part of life. I know many people that are on Xanax all the time because if you want them, you just walk into a pharmacy and get them. Now they are zombified all the time because of it.
Yikes, that is pretty crazy. I have a friend who was addicted to prescription pain pills, so it's a slippery slope no matter what I think. The system definitely needs some reformation.