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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."
I've never been in anaphylactic shock, but I would imagine it would be particularly difficult to engage in the suggested activity while suffering from an allergic reaction.
Perhaps someone could correct me though if I'm wrong.
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. If it is too expensive the schools should consider a replacement. And have this guy just blame critics in the poor house with a stack of epipens that he will sell at a loss.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
that his attitude comes back to bite him. I can just imagine the fun that social media could have with that kind of arrogance.
While the management's behavior isn't recommended, they own the product. There are alternatives. Government forcing someone to sell at a certain price is the beginning of the end economically.
He comes to me to be used, to be degraded, to become nothing more than a double-ended piece of pipework. A sly winking poke-point on one end, a gaping wide receptacle on the other, there to catch the slurry of filth my body produces.
To feed him.
To force him.
To make him.
His only purpose is to be my human toilet.
I do not need him. This isn't about me. This is about The Hole. The Hole needs to be trained. The Hole needs to be forced. The Hole needs to become. The Hole needs. The greedy fucking Hole.
He arrives on his hands and knees, naked except for a leather blindfold bound around his head. He arrives. I don't need him to see or speak. He crawls into our space, moving with the grace of a three-legged pig. Suitably obscene, our space is an abandoned psychiatric hospital. Tall ceilings. Tall, greasy broken windows. Amateurish paintings of cartoon characters half chipped off the walls. Broken. His hands and knees travel along a floor littered with the residue of the insane.
Dust.
Glass.
Flaked paint.
I bend down and slip a leather collar around his neck, fixing it with force, fixing The Hole. I attach a lead to the collar, a lovely Victorian pull chain for my little crawling cistern. How fucking ornate my bespoke little Hole looks. Pulling The Hole along, I stop him occasionally by jerking abruptly on the pull chain. He stops. The slow tapping of my shiny, black PVC boots is all that he hears circling around his body.
Tap.
Tap.
Tap.
Stop.
Behind him. Bare arse. The Hole. Boots. I bend my knee and bring the heel of my boot in line with the vertical cleft in his arse. Hole. Flexing my foot, I push my heel forward and penetrate his little rancid plughole with six inches of tapered spike. The Hole hisses and gurgles as if he has a faulty valve. He is a useless piece of mechanics, all pipes, levers, and wax rings made flesh. I laugh and continue my campaign of sodomy against his delicate inner workings.
Hiss.
Gurgle.
The ridiculous sounds he produces only serve to increase the brutality of each thrust of my heel, violently working in and out, fucking his disgusting little shit-valve with the tapered arse-end of my boot. His arms buckle beneath him, and he is left flattened on the ground, prostrated like a beggar with the sole of my boot pressed firmly into his lower back. I hold him steady, withdrawing my heel from his greasy plughole while grinding the sole of my boot into a ridge of bone.
My amusement is complete.
Get. Up.
The pull chain is jerked again and The Hole is drawn forward. He follows me down the length of a pale green corridor, his hands and knees continue to crunch against the detritus on the floor. My heels continue tapping, the pull chain continues pulling. Echo. Hole. The combined sensations urge him in the correct direction until the sound ceases, the pulling ceases, and The Hole stops.
Door.
Hinge.
Clichéd creak.
The light changes and the tapping and pulling begin again. A new sensation invades The Hole. He is flooded with the stench of sewage and bleach. Mildew. Damp. Hole. The persistent dripping of water. The floor feels cold and waxy beneath his palms, knees, and toes. He continues to follow until the pullchain is jerked once again.
Sit. Up.
Prop.
Spread.
The Hole sits rigid against the cracked porcelain of what was once the official shit swallower of lunatics. Goat ladies. Catatonics. Dirty protesters. His arse and balls sit bare on autumn coloured stains that are probably older than he is. His legs straight, his ankles a maximum distance apart. Broken tiles. Black grout. Toilet relic. I step between his legs, grab his jaw with my gloved hand, and force his head back towards what is left of the bowl. His face and cock both point up towards a large hole in the ceiling revealing another ward. Hole.
Turning around, I squat and then sit on top of his upturned face. Throne. Queen. The latex skirt I am wearing curls back,
I wouldn't feel sorry if someone delivered a few grains of lead to this guys brainpan.
The Wonders of Free Market Enterprise!
Now, if only there was a competitor who could create a generic version of the...
what?
Patent law? What the hell is this bullshit?
Another med they make is $630 for a month supply. The generic brand containing the same med/dose is $90 for a month supply. My message to Mylan... Go fuck yourself.
And then "well at least that's what we think he said." Oops. Your bombastic use of a word immediately discredits you. However, since it does appear that the article is saying that he actually said that, perhaps the term "reportedly" could have been used instead of literally.
u need to pay for it.
healthcare is not free.
It's the first good thing I've heard about it. That's what everyone should say to every activist and media figure every time.
Time to talk to Canada for prices.
That say that Robert Coury owns one half of this whole town.
At some point, this orifice at the negative end of the esophagus will be responsible for the untimely demise of a person who is mourned by someone with a rather low tolerance for bullshit of this kind, and this person of limited longanimity will rip said orifice a suitable replacement for the aforementioned orifice.
Preferably slowly, painfully and streamed via a service that many people can enjoy.
And nothing of value will be lost. Except maybe the YouTube video of it.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Do they have Dick Cheney on the board of directors?
there are competitors, right? so use the economic system we have and vote with your wallet.
single payer system is needed!
At least one chairman who has balls to say what he actually thinks instead of hiding behind insincere excuses. On the other hand I hope he won't cry when his critics start using stronger language as well.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-23/how-marketing-turned-the-epipen-into-a-billion-dollar-business
They can do this because of those asinine drug ads. Folks see the ad and beg their doc for a prescription. My wife has patients come in all the time asking for a drug they saw on TV.
Ads for drugs need to be made illegal again.
It won't happen though. Orin Hatch (R-UT) and Mitch McConnel (R-KY) will never allow it because of Capitalism and Free Markets ( © - RNC).
Tis a wonders the sociopath still breaths ...
Now that patent rights are terminated with any domestic or foreign sale, per the SCOTUS Lexmark decision, pretty soon the market is going to be able to tell Coury to go fuck himself.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
I'll be in the minority here, but that's bad ass. A company leader that doesn't do PR is a breath of fresh air, even if he is a raging asshole.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
Based on patents, they have the right to charge whatever they want. In fact, that is what the drug companies do as well. Which is why we need to re-do patents WRT medical items. In particular, we should lower the timeframe from 20 down to 10 for items such as general medicine, epi-pen, equipment, etc. At the very least, move it to the first 10 years from anybody, and then the second 10 years only from imports. The 2 exceptions need to be vaccines and most of all, antibiotics. We need to give real reason for development of both vaccine/antibiotics, rather than drugs that treat symptoms, or items that simplify life such as epipen.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I understand his frustration and appreciate his honesty. Similar to hanging up on cold callers, he doesn't owe a buzz fly reporter any civility or politeness. It's refreshing to see a chairman who speaks his mind without covering everything in silver like a PR douche.
Time for us to beg Canada for drugs.
Letting companies like that keep patents is not in the public interest.
The Epipen disaster is squarely due to FDA's hubris, maintaining that every other drug regulator in the world is incompetent. If the FDA would accept generic-drug approvals from other first-world agencies, like those in Canada and Europe, we wouldn't have this problem. Understand that they are not approving the drug, which is already approved, but just approving the manufacturing process. The FDA insists on an expensive, redundant approval process that results in a non-competitive market that leads to gouging.
It's nice when corporations (or rather, those who work for them) are kind and good to humanity.
Having said that, that's not what business is for. Business is for making money.
Like processes on a protected-mode OS, business must be regulated to the satisfaction of the citizenry. If we deem it important that corporations do not dump millions of gallons of toxic waste into the river, we should not rely solely on good will and bad press to deter them. We use the law, just as we do memory protection, to curtail them.
What Mylan did was legal. Each time a corporation does something egrigious that hurts a lot of people, odds are better we'll improve the protection mechanism we have in place.
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
Considering the one's he's giving the finger to, his career may be a short one.
This guy gets points for honesty, boldness, and openly admitting that he's in the top 1% of the world's amoral socio/psychopathic douche-bags. It's nowhere near enough to make up for what happened, but most people in his situation would lie through their teeth to try to paint a better picture for themselves and their company.
If you want to know what the problem is today, rich getting richer, the 1% et. al...
It's because we've allowed these psychopaths, like Robert Coury, into positions of power.
They don't outnumber us, but psychopathic brains are wired different. They are literally a different species of human, incapable of empathy.
We have finally found an honest chairman. Now if only other companies would do the same instead of hiding their true feelings...
I can't imagine that the chairman did the company any favors in the here and now by openly suggesting that people who criticize the company's price gouging can go "copulate with themselves", however.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Somebody doesn't remember thalidomide.
to them...then NNed to scream that Mr. Raymond's erosion of user
If the government is so concerned, they could invalidate the patent(s) involved, and let the generics makers get involved in the auto-injectors. The drug itself is already a generic medicine. Let the 'free market' decide which product is better. The gov't, and patients, would be returning the fingers.
"The quality of life is determined by its activites."--Aristotle
On TV. As a warning to other Big Pharma assholes.
I am being very sarcastic. When reading this article I wanted to see what this pr*ck looked like. Much to my surprise I was not disappointed. He looks like a 40 year old version of Martin Shkreli. Sometimes I don't know how people can live with themselves let alone manage anatomically challenging self-fulfillment. Really sad side of reality and it only gets worse. Sorry, folks this makes me sick for those who have to have this life saving "device" as it is put. Out...
Canada has price controls
The FDA is the "real villain"? I don't think the FDA is the one gouging. Sure, they didn't stop it like they should have, but they are not doing the gouging.
A bit of cheerleading for the poor man doing his job so well but still being submitted to such hate:
Say C, say A, say P I T, say A, say L, say I S M
The price is set by what the market will bear. Don't like the price? Fix the market.
Or do the sensible thing and don't let the market set the rate you pay for drugs. Either way, you're blaming the wrong people here. Fix the system, not the people who work in it.
Adrenaclick, 2 for $110. It was released last year.
At least he was honest. Can't say he lied. What he does is legal (although not ethical) and if people do not like it, they indeed should go either fuck themselves or change it that it isn't legal anymore.
If I drive 50KMH in a 50KMH zone and you think it is too fast, you can also go fuck yourself or change it that the limits are lower.
The legal part should be closer to the ethical part and that should be our way to say to him that he can fuck himself. Unfortunately we do not have a real say in laws. Fuck me, right?
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
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.
We have a president that tells his critics to do the same thing. The people have spoken. It's all good. What's the problem?
Thalidomide undergoes racemization in the human body, so no matter how good your manufacturing process was, you would still end up with a mix bag of enantiomers.
This is a sign of how broken the medical system is. Most people don't even realize how bad it is because they have some sort of normal insurance. However, for everyone else and just people in the know, it's totally fucked up.
Some of my own experiences:
1. Go to emergency room, nothing major. Insurance with co-pay. $50.
2. Go to emergency room, nothing major. No insurance. $500.
3. Go to emergency room, nothing major. Insurance but it has a deductible. $5000
Why is it 10 times more expensive to go to the ER with insurance vs no insurance? It's because they artificially jack up the price to an insane level so that they can extract the maximum the insurance company is willing to pay. Then the insurance company pays that price, which is not $5000 let me tell you. However, as a person with insurance but no negotiating power then you have to pay the fake high price.
It's totally stupid. My recommendation for anyone is to ALWAYS say you have no insurance. Then you will get only a moderately overpriced bill. Then if you want you can ask them to submit to your insurance. The problem is though, once they have your insurance info they will always try to use it and always give you the fake high price.
This is the kind of article going around in my circle of people with anaphylaxis prone children. Seriously. Citizens of our once great nation are buying YEARS expired medication, second-hand, so their kids won't die.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/08/...
One family I know personally had to budget for a YEAR in advance in order to replace an expired pen... and by the way, you need 2 in order to be sure to not die.
So yeah if you are lucky enough to have insurance that actually covers the epi-pen... when yours expires, you can sell it for $100 or more.
but it still applies.
That's really not what is being discussed here. We don't have to throw out the FDA's governance on general types of therapies, but why can't people import established drugs such as insulin or epinephrine from overseas? It sounds like unnecessary micro-management on the FDA's part. Or one could argue is that the FDA is just the strong-arm of the US drug manufacturers.
love is just extroverted narcissism
Congress would invalidate that companies entire patent portfolio and put them all in the public domain.
Problem is that would require a congress that was not Morally bankrupt. And the USA is not capable of having that.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Somebody doesn't remember thalidomide.
In what way doe thalidomide apply to the post about accepting generics. Thalidomide was about accepting the drug in the first place. Your example would make sense if the discussion was that Epipens cause birth defects.
For any FDA approved drug or device to have multiple suppliers in order for FDA approval. Its a matter of public safety.
AMD still exists because Intel needed an 'alternate supplier' of x86 parts for government contracts and other intelligent businesses that knew better than to get tied to one vendor due to the dangers that provides.
Require the same thing here, its a matter of life or death in some cases.
You really only have to make sure that the two suppliers are not in collusion with each other, and the price will be reasonable. The alternate supplier(s) may need to license technology from the inventor, but the inventor can't over charge (well, to a certain degree) for it because no one will bother being the alternate supplier if its not worth it. This doesn't solve the problem, but it will cap the price. The price may still be 'too much', but it won't run rampant as long as you can ensure the two companies aren't in collusion. This puts the smaller suppliers in a point of power since refusing to sell the product has direct consequences on the inventors ability to sell the product.
Also, any product managed under the FDA's umbrella can not be considered infringing on any patent UNLESS the patent is covering something used in an existing product that is currently for sell to the public (via prescription if needed) and also regulated by the FDA.
I.e. if you aren't selling an FDA governed product/drug covered by a patent, you can't sue anyone for selling a product/drug that is governed by the FDA. Its not infringing if you don't make anything yourself. Additionally, the products have to be sold for the same purpose. If one is viagra and the other is tooth whitener, those are different realms and can't be infringing. Since these products are required to have alternate suppliers ... well, it pretty much prevents monopolies from happening.
Will this stop medical research? NO.
1) The people DOING the research do it because they want to. Most of them aren't in it for the money.
2) Even with competition plenty of profit can be made, if the existing fat cat companies refuse to research, someone else will step in and take their place because they can still make money. It'll take more work and result in smaller margins, but it'll still happen.
3) There is a high probability that research would be accelerated since researchers can experiment with existing technology in new ways without worrying that their work will be wasted when the patent owner gets greedy.
Or, we could, you know, fix the patent system abuse.
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We're here. We've finally made it. The chairman of a major pharmaceutical company responded to criticism of a profit-gouging 10x price increase by literally throwing up two middle fingers and saying "I don't give a fuck. They can go fuck themselves".
This is a scene I'd have expected to see in Mike Judge's (evidently prescient) film, not an actual event in reality. Our society has really jumped the shark.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
You can keep virtue-signalling impotent rage at one company after another, under this weird expectation the corporate structure, designed to rigorously exclude all motivations except profit so that shareholders are not scammed, is somehow "moral" or subject to "guilt". You can keep your ethical punching bag. You can celebrate a string of tiny victories, while leaving most of the rocks unturned with lots of bugs crawling under them.
Or you can use big picture tools you have: alter market conditions like drug approvals, patent abuse, amount of publicly funded research and conditions for receiving it, single-payer and drug price negotiation, inspiration from other countries. As a democratic citizen these are the primary tools you have to control corporate actors, not rage and shame. This whole exercise is a disgusting form of masturbation.
...what is it about said product that is so unique that no alternative exists? Since people get upset, I guess there is no realistic alternative.
Can somebody elaborate?
P.S.: I am healthy and sitting on another continent, so I have all the outsider-nes you can ask for and is sincerely a tad confused.
My friend gave it to me as he was dying. It seemed very important to him that I have it.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
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I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
Isn't it great that regulators like the FDA give the makers of EpiPen the power to fleece, screw and insult their customers while protecting them from any competition? Thank you, FDA, for watching out so much for the interests of the American public! We obviously need to give the FDA even more regulatory authority so that the FDA can nurture even more billionaires like Coury.
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.
Assuming that the House, Senate, and the President agree to make an example of a particularly badly-behaved corporation, are they able to place some or all of the effected patents into the public domain?
Got a reading comprehension problem or just a shill? What part of "just approving the manufacturing process" did you fail to understand?
If he negotiates with government health bodies like this, this is what the concept of nationalisation is there to address. Given the attitude and the health impact, the moral case is clear. This guy sounds like a sociopath, if he is then why should society afford him or his patents any protection? Got any politicians willing to work for society, rather than for their business bribes?
If Mylan has s patent on the delivery system:
Put epinephrine into a small tranquilizer dart and put it into a small, derringer-like pistol.
This is just a marketing campaign in preparation for Mylan's expansion to the sex toy market.
Nationalize the pharmaceutical industry.
And go back to 1997, and BAN ALL C(ONSUMER_TARGETED ADVERTISING OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. They spend *billions* on that, and what, you're supposed to tell your doctor what to prescribe?
With all the mergers, they're spending a lot less on actual research. And the research they are doing - a year or two ago, India refused to grant a patent to a major drug, because it was no advance at all on the existing drug... that was about to go out of patent.
Hell, go look at the wikipedia entry on quinene, for malaria - how much it costs to make, and the price in the US.
That's their big research. Basic research? Try universities, a lot of whom get funding for that... from the biggest and best (IMO) medical and bioscientific research organization in the world: the US NIH.
If I cant set the price of my cancer cure, then im not going to spend my/companies money to develop it. "What about the people you could save?" --> Your confused me with a charity. "Its your duty to...*insert whatever here* " --> No its not get over your self. "Your heartless!" -->Thats not an argument.
The Epi-pen issue relates to patents on the delivery device, not drug licensing. The drug itself has been available to be manufactured as a generic for years.
Congress mandated this onto the FDA for precisely this reason. It's a massive wealth transfer from the middle class to the drug company investors and executives. They pay congress very well to maintain this blockade.
Why don't you just tell them you can't pay? I thought no one could be turned away by an emergency room.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Take away all of Mylan's patents and place them in the public domain. Their trademarks too...
Corporatism != Free Market
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His words have not been transmitted exactly, but the way New York Times described them strongly suggests that he, in fact, literally used the f-word:
"He raised both his middle fingers and explained, using colorful language, that anyone criticizing Mylan, including its employees, ought to go copulate with themselves."
With English language's limited number of words in this area, I can think of only way to say that "using colorful language".
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Price-gouging Maker of EpiPen Literally Said That Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves
- as he rightfully should have, he is just repeating what the government already said and did even if it was worded differently.
You are told to 'go fuck yourself' when the government uses its power to oppress the individual freedoms in the market by providing government protected patents and copyrights. There shouldn't be such a thing, patents and copyrights should have no government protection, everything should be done either in the open or protected via trade secrets, there is no place for any government in any of it, it is because of the government intervention that your healthcare and medication costs are as high as they are. Same thing applies to education and everything else the government touches.
You can't handle the truth.
That's a former CEO.
Bust his useless patent and let the generic manufacturers flood the market. The patent on such an obvious copy of the US Army nerve gas antidote injector was wrongly issued anyway.
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I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
Since copulate has never been classified as "colorful language", I'd say there's a very strong chance that the person in question here literally said Go Fuck Yourself.
Not even sure why editors chose to go all PC describing an event that was far from PC. Hell of a lot easier to call a horse a horse.
It might happen under any other president, but it won't happen under this one. Unfortunately for the next 3.5 years we will have to pursue other options.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Bravo. THAT is the proper usage of the word "literally".
There is precedent to turn a private entity into a government operated public entity, and back again. For example if a business provides a service vital to the community, and the business is hostile and uncooperative to the needs of the people.
Remember kids, eminent domain is not limited to real estate and can be applied to any other form of property. You operate your business as long as the people feel it is a mutually beneficial relationship. We prefer a laissez-faire approach because we usually find that over regulation bogs down growth, and most people want businesses to grow. But again this is a position people generally agree to because it is believed to be mutually beneficial (and personally I think this is mostly correct). You have no special right to operate a business, it is not a natural right, and an individual business has no guarantee that it can operate in the same fashion indefinitely.
It's a line to walk between complete state ownership of all property and special cases that are handled under exceptional circumstances and are somewhat temporary in nature. I think most of us don't want the government to operate all businesses directly, that has worked out badly in many other countries. But we've had success in breaking up companies, restructuring companies, and redirecting assets of a business or industry to address public concerns. Proceed carefully and with limits, and try not to view everything as black-and-white. And try to consider details rather than apply everything rigidly to every situation.
Correct. They will treat you no problem no matter what. "Can't pay" is "no insurance". They will still attempt to bill the shit out of you and put on collections, etc.
Why do you think it could be challenged?
In Eldred v. Ashcroft, the court affirmed that Congress is sovereign in settings patent and copyright terms.
If Congress is sovereign in lengthening the term(s), would not Congress be sovereign in setting any terms they choose to zero?
From the wiki: "However, the major argument for the act that carried over into the case was that the Constitution specified that Congress only needed to set time limits for copyright, the length of which was left to their discretion."
If zero doesn't work, how about 3 months?
God clearly loves you more so he wants you dead so yall can hang out sooner.
Also, once youre buried, your body will fertilize the ground, helping vegetation grow, which combats global warming (er, climate change).
Stop being a selfish prick and uphold your destiny.
Since the USA controls patents within the borders of the USA, why not release the patent to the public and tell the makers of the Epipen to go fornicate with themselves while their heads are up their asses?
Another slew of misguided comments telling us how the government is going to save us from the evil corporations.
Nationalize the pharmaceutical industry!
Invalidate all of their patents!
Execute the CEO on national television!
Or any other mindless, brute force government "solution".
How can an Epipen in the USA sell for 4X-5X as much as it does in Europe or Canada when it wouldn't cost more than a few dollars to ship one to the USA? In the age of online commerce and air freight, that price difference should not exist. But, thanks to the U.S. federal government, it's illegal to import or re-import an Epipen or any prescription drug. People in the USA are therefore forced, to pay ridiculously inflated prices, and in effect, subsidize prescriptions drugs for the entire rest of the world. Repeal the government ban and those price differences disappear. Other countries might end up paying more, but people in the USA would pay substantially less.
Don't argue that we need more government to address a problem that wouldn't exist if we had less government.
"we think" >_> oi
Thalidomide?? Give me a break. The FDA has been trading on thalidomide forever, pretending that non-US regulators are utterly incapable of learning from the past. So where are the other thalidomides that those European imbeciles have let through? The truth that the FDA will not admit is that thalidomide is a sad part of the past that will not be repeated. But, bureaucratic fairy tales are immortal. As long as they had some grain of truth at one time, no one can ever contradict them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html
I just cannot believe that you are so surprised at your own failures when you, yourself, are one giant failure.
So, how did your round of hiring go? I guess you didn't get to update your webpage when your fictitious employees didn't appear. Perhaps you should have been working harder instead of unwinding. This way you could have made up some fake employees for your business by now.
So sad, so lazy, so not living up to the BS you sling around.
This government will never save the U.S. from teh evl drug corps, because of several things:
* The administration is manned by Republicans.
* it's embroiled in the Russia collusion and treason scandal and election hacking, and has already caused substantial instability in the world (look at Qatar). Confirmations of political appointees have not yet ended, and confirmations are so slow, that six months in, the number of appointees confirmed is twice less than with the previous (Obama) administration. Some smart Republicans even avoid being in the employ of the current administration, despite the Republicans owning the presidency (yea, right), the Senate and the House. And no major legislaton has been enacted (travel ban notwithstanding).
Per some of the comments around here, I gathered, that Congress prohibited the government—really, any U.S. government, whether R or D—from negotiating prices for medicines. The United States Congress also prohibited the import (and reimport) of generics.
And there you have it. 'The land of the free...'
Congress merely has to mention the word " regulation " and the rest of the Big Pharma Execs will send a couple of guys to " talk " to him about why he should keep his prices to something that doesn't draw so much attention.
...but it's not OK to raise drug prices?
How's life in the hypocrite lane?
Sorry, but you're the one who's misguided. This is a case where we need more regulation. Right now we have legalized corruption because we are afraid to limit what public officials can do after they quit their government jobs. They go from running the FDA to being paid millions a year as "consultants" for the pharmaceutical industry. As a result, the government does whatever they want. Even if you somehow managed to fix it and cut all of the bad regulations, a few years later, you'd end up with the exact same thing again. When big pharma is paying millions to the people who write rules for them, they're going to get what they want.
All I can think is that this guy is trying to bring down the rotten Pharma system from within, and possibly become a martyr in the process! How else will govt become involved unless someone makes them look ridiculous?
I think this guy is out of his head, and , i think it is a response to his alleged (and settled for $465milliion payback) medicaid/medicare fraud for over billing state payback sources. I know it was back last august or in mid 2016 the company got accused of this type of fraud and called it 'price-gouging' at the time. I only saw a part of the NYT article which indicated gestures and verbiage used by R.Coury who was called chairman or ceo i forget. I am not clear whether it was his reply that started the investigation or whether his reply was after being investigated, and ultimately settled for that reputed $465million us bucks. I am not able to verify this but did read it recently which is why i am out of sync with it all.
Why does it need to be an auto-injector? Isn't a school nurse trained/licensed to administer a dose of epinephrine via syringe?