Big Pharma’s greed exposed again with rise in EpiPen costs

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signalmankenneth

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Our congress bares some of the responsibility for Big Pharma's greed too!
Big Pharma spends millions on political contributions, remember for awhile we could purchase high price American drugs for a much lower price in Canada and other countries? Big Pharma greed also contributes to our high cost healthcare too!

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ABA saw to it that schools had to have epipens on hand in case a kid was undiagnosed with potentially life threatening food allergies. Or if the parent (s) were too cheap to bring one in and you would be surprised how often this happens. The missus runs the clinic at the local high school so this is legit.
Pols were only too happy to oblige so the episode makers got the green light to charge whatever since government became, in total, the biggest customer and there are ml o deeper pockets.

Do your calender math and see the effect of Healthcare costs as government became the biggest customer (medicare medicaid).

If you want to get mad, know who to get mad at.
 
Racistguy said:
The missus runs the clinic at the local high school so this is legit.
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So you say.

EpiPen prices aren't the only thing to jump at Mylan.

Executive salaries have also seen a stratospheric uptick.

Proxy filings show that from 2007 to 2015, Mylan CEO Heather Bresch's total compensation went from $2,453,456 to $18,931,068, a 671 percent increase.

During the same period, the company raised EpiPen prices, with the average wholesale price going from $56.64 to $317.82, a 461 percent increase



www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/mylan-execs-gave-themselves-raises-they-hiked-epipen-prices-n636591

Libertarian-style free markets in action.
 
Heather Bresch is a real piece of work. I'm not surprised to learn she's behind this type of scam.

Bresch was an MBA student at West Virginia University until 1998. In 2007, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Bresch had claimed to have an MBA degree from West Virginia University, but the university disputed that. The university subsequently awarded her an MBA despite her not having attained sufficient credits (22 out of the required 48). In the ensuing controversy, the university announced in April 2008 that it would rescind Bresch's degree. Michael Garrison, WVU President at the time, was reported to be "a family friend and former business associate of Bresch"[SUP][7][/SUP] and a former consultant and lobbyist for Mylan.[SUP][8][/SUP] After a faculty vote of no confidence, Garrison and several university officials subsequently resigned.[SUP][9][/SUP][SUP][10]

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This one area of US healthcare that truly pisses me off. There is simply no need, other than greed, to charge that much money, especially for life saving drugs.
 
get a syringe, and a bottle of epinephrine. Give it IM ( intramuscular) in thigh or arm. The whole thing costs maybe $20
 
Celticguy said:
Dose ?
Know how to load it ?
Schools have to train everyone who might administer it.
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do I know how to draw from a pharmaceutical supply bottle into a syringe? *duh*
Or the syringe can be pre-loaded with someone with that 'skill'

what's the dose? can I use the google? It's not just at school -parents with kids also need to have the pen/syringe at home.
Screw Big Pharma -do it yourself
 
Celticguy said:
ABA saw to it that schools had to have epipens on hand in case a kid was undiagnosed with potentially life threatening food allergies. Or if the parent (s) were too cheap to bring one in and you would be surprised how often this happens. The missus runs the clinic at the local high school so this is legit.
Pols were only too happy to oblige so the episode makers got the green light to charge whatever since government became, in total, the biggest customer and there are ml o deeper pockets.

Do your calender math and see the effect of Healthcare costs as government became the biggest customer (medicare medicaid).

If you want to get mad, know who to get mad at.
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Well that might have something to do with politicians who tied medicares hands to that they can't bid for pharmaceuticals. That's corrupt as hell.

It's just a matter of time but cost controls will be one of the next major steps in health care reform.
 
I predict that conservatives will oppose price controls on drugs (while they receive campaign contributions from Big Pharma).
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Well that might have something to do with politicians who tied medicares hands to that they can't bid for pharmaceuticals. That's corrupt as hell.

It's just a matter of time but cost controls will be one of the next major steps in health care reform.
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Yes quite corrupt well planned and executed.
But if government created the problem why would you think it would fix it ? Price controls never work.

Get goverenmentioned out of the medicall biz and let the market regulate itself.
 
Was talking with a friend and she said the actual medicine only costs a dollar.

WTF?

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