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Price-gouging Maker of EpiPen Literally Said That Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves (gizmodo.com)
Back in August of 2016, the pharmaceutical company Mylan came under fire for jacking up prices of the EpiPen from $57 in 2007 to roughly $600 in 2016. The public backlash has been significant. Gizmodo adds: But the chairman of Mylan has a message for any critics: Go fuck yourself. Well, at least that's what we think he said. The New York Times has a new article about the fact that prices for the live-saving allergy medication haven't actually come down since last year. And the article has a rather strange way of describing the attitude of Mylan chairman Robert Coury. This is how the New York Times describes Coury's reaction to critics of Mylan's price gouging: "Mr. Coury replied that he was untroubled. He raised both his middle fingers and explained, using colorful language, that anyone criticizing Mylan, including its employees, ought to go copulate with themselves. Critics in Congress and on Wall Street, he said, should do the same. And regulators at the Food and Drug Administration? They, too, deserved a round of anatomically challenging self-fulfillment."
There are alternative auto-injectors - http://www.consumerreports.org...
The epipen isn't the only player in the market, its popularity is due to schools support for it, as an easy way to administer the drug. .
The schools have support for it because they are legally required to do so. Schools are legally required to carry epinephrone pens, and Mylan took steps to become the dominant player in the epinephrine autoinjector market; so much so that "epipen" is now on the same level as kleenex, bandaid, or xerox in that it is now essentially a generic term for any epinephrine injector pen. Oh, yeah, and one of their top executives also happens to be the daughter of a senator. I'm sure that didn't have any bearing when it came to lobbying efforts.
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That'd be all good and well, if there weren't patents preventing other players from entering the market.
If only there were already competing devices out there, for 1/6th of the price, that would solve this entire problem. https://theoutline.com/post/88...
you mean how people on the left have been going apeshit over the price hike since it happened?
Get fucked trying to make this political, my wife and her deadly allergy don't give a fuck which fuckheaded party your dumbass voted for. Fucking deplorable indeed. Can't have ANY story out there without some "democrats = bad" fucking bullshit tagged onto it.
Hell, at least you used a legit account to post that bullshit.
Canada has price controls
No, private industry with a profit motive will always be more efficient
Will it?
Take a look at the deadly mess that is the VA and tell me single payer is better.
Everything around the military is always crap. You can justify anything by pounding on war drums. And hey, while we're at it, the VA (at least its health care arm) is one of the things which can go away if we have a single payer health care system.
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You think that the government would be less bloated? We are talking about the government. They created the concept of ineffectual bloat and then expanded, enhanced and perfected it. The government home of the $50,000 hammer. No, private industry with a profit motive will always be more efficient than government bureaucrats with no motive at all for efficiency and service. Take a look at the deadly mess that is the VA and tell me single payer is better.
Are you talking about the bloat private companies invented to charge to the gov because they can get away with it? It's always going to be cheaper and better to have public services, if for nothing else no one is looking to profit off it and any extra money made goes back into the service or others. It's in private industry with a profit motive it's all but encouraged to cut service and increase price. If you truly think that's better you're deluded. I don't know about your VA but I'd be willing to bet most of it's problems will be caused by subcontracting to private companies.
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We just picked up the generic Adrenaclick from CVS for $12 after they automatically applied a $100 off coupon (even without insurance). The major difference between Adrenaclick and EpiPen is that Adrenaclick doesn't retract the needle after injection. If Mylan's pricing nonsense continues I think we'll see more people being trained on Adrenaclick than EpiPen just due to the cost.
There are varied degrees. I am allergic to bees. With most, I'll swell up and have some throat constriction. With a few, I'll have a reasonable amount of time to seek treatment. With a very small number, a single sting is enough to mean I need immediate treatment, or I will die. Most of the time, I won't need any treatment at all. I'll just have to calm down and ensure I keep breathing well enough.
If you're curious, I don't even bother carrying my shot kit. It is fairly unlikely that I will need it and there's usually one that I can access, if I have enough time.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
I don't see why there is even a discussion about this. Market forces should already have reduced Mylan's sales of EpiPen to ZERO. There are alternatives. MUCH cheaper alternatives! Let Mylan ask whatever they want, just don;t buy from them.
Anyone with a prescription can purchase Adrenaclick(the EpiPen generic) for $60 from CVS Drugs. With this coupon.
The real ignorance and travesty is that ANYONE still buys EpiPen.
A DIY option is the EpiPencil:
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There are generic auto-injectors available at a reasonable price. There's just no reason to buy EpiPen, unless the kid's school is in on the scam.
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Epipen has a patent on their injector but its not the only injector design, many of which are out of patent.
Unfortunately it is our FDA that is perpetuating this problem because they increased the certification standards on injectors which, unless someone coughs up and throws away millions of dollars for new testing, rules out using many older out-of-patent designs that are all-the-rage in other parts of the world (like western europe.)
Sure, this is price gouging. Plain and simple. But its the FDA's fault that a bunch of competing injector-based products disappeared from the market overnight.
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