The truly weird thing is that 99.9% of epi-pens are discarded without ever being used. They’re a rescue device only, and careful (and lucky) allergy sufferers can go through their entire lives without ever using one. Plus they have to be replaced annually. I’ve thrown away at least 50 of them over the past 9 years.
Auvi-Q. They had a really neat device that talked to you and walked you through the entire injection process. Plus it was a lot more convenient to carry - instead of being a fat, long cigar, it was more like a thin pack of cards. They had to recall because of instances where not enough medication was injected. They really took a bath on it - for every one returned, they reimbursed your out of pocket costs for buying a replacement epi-pen.
And, of course, the problem with fast-tracking alternatives is that there is a huge ramp-up cost, which has to be invested knowing that Mylan can slash the cost of the original and still own the market. No one can come out with a cheaper version because Mylan’s is already at rock-bottom cost (of manufacture). It’s an old, old, old marketplace game.
Can someone summarize Mylan’s response to criticism over the price hike for me? I’ve seen it reported several times, and it just doesn’t make sense to me.
They’ve been blaming the price hike on an increase in the number of people making use of high-deductible insurance policies, but it is beyond me how users of high-deductible insurance policies have forced them to raise the price. The only way it makes sense to me is if they’re trying to say that not enough people to raise a fuss would be complaining about their gouging if enough people were on low-deductible policies so that they could extract their money unnoticed from insurance companies rather than taking it from the vocal and more sympathy-inducing uninsured and poorly insured.
That can’t really be what they’re offering in defense, can it?
It’s always so hilarious when “liberals” launch into sexist attacks against the women they hate. Thanks for continuing to undermine yourself, misogynist
The “free market” involves transactions between sellers who don’t have to sell and buyers that don’t have to buy. With medical costs, it is often literally a matter of “your money or your life”, which means that they have as much in common with the “free market” as your average mugging.
I’d assume so. The thing that makes an epipen useful is the self injecting feature - if you know how to measure & inject a drug, you don’t need an epipen.
It’s hilarious when you chime in, thinking you have a point. There was absolutely nothing sexist in that. She is being ripped for her actions and apparent lack of a soul.
The screed would have looked the same if the name had been Heathcliffe Bresch.
