Stop the Epipen Price Gouging
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Sep 22nd, 2016Someone from Athens, OH signed.
Sep 22nd, 2016Someone from Huntersville, NC writes:
Read this article, and then start making nooses, one for each member of the Manchin family: https://www.rt.com/usa/360084-epipen-medicare-medicaid-scam/ "Mylan has been highly scrutinized after increasing the price of its medical devices that fight life-threatening allergic reactions by 400 percent this year. The pharmaceutical company is now facing an enforcement action after not cooperating with the West Virginia attorney general?s subpoena issued last month, CNBC reported. Heather Bresch is the CEO of Mylan and is reportedly very well connected. The daughter of a former West Virginia governor and current US Senator Joe Manchin (D) is facing accusations that she used her mother Gayle?s position on the National Association of State Boards of Education to boost her company?s earnings. Gayle Manchin must have seemed to be very passionate about allergies when she was at the forefront of a movement to require schools to purchase EpiPens in 2012. Eleven states wrote laws requiring the powerful allergies-reversing medicine, and almost all of the remaining states strongly encouraged schools to keep epinephrine auto-injectors on hand in case of an emergency. The rapid interest in allergic reactions went all the way to the White House, where in 2013, President Barack Obama signed the EpiPen Law that gave preferential funding to states that encouraged EpiPens. Meanwhile, the cost of EpiPens was increasing. In 2007, two EpiPens, the common dosage for a year, cost $100. It is around this time that EpiPen prices began increasing by 30 percent each year, according to Fortune. By the time 2012 rolled around, they were over $200 for a two-pack."Sep 22nd, 2016Someone from Gaylordsville, CT signed.
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Sep 22nd, 2016Someone from Lumberton, NJ writes:
Just witnessed a father unable to purchase an epipen for his because the cost of one was over $300. Disgusting.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 22nd, 2016Someone from Le Mars, IA writes:
I have 2 children with life threatening nut allergies. We have been carrying Epi Pens with us everywhere since 2007. The price of Epi pens is ridiculous.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 22nd, 2016Someone from Cypress, TX writes:
What about change the patent law for the other medicines. We have to sign for all medicines grow prices not only for Epipens.REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 22nd, 2016Someone from Hampshire, IL writes:
Boycott! Hit them where it hurts. Mylan Drug Company does not have a soul.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 22nd, 2016Someone from Mooresville, NC signed.
Sep 22nd, 2016Someone from Athens, OH writes:
This is to save the lives of those who cannot help their condition! Including children! The common sense here would be to clearly make this medicine free, if not 100% affordable to everybody!REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 21st, 2016Someone from Graham, NC writes:
Almost half of the margins in 2015 came from epipen sales. Mylan and Bresch need to face consequences. I use 1-2 a year...it has become absurd with the price and profits. it is a challenge to need a life saving drug when your heart rate drops to 20bpm and insurance barely covers getting any of them in a year now. No one has mentioned that they expire less than 12 mos from when you actually get them from a pharmacy. 600 dollars and expires in May 2017 for the pack i just picked up 2 weeks ago. USDA needs to allow alternates...this is not a new drug 50 yrs , no reason we are at the mercy of Mylan.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 21st, 2016Someone from Hawthorne, NY signed.
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Sep 21st, 2016Someone from Simi Valley, CA writes:
Please help lower the cost doe epipens!!! The current price is outrageous. Mylan executives are extremely greedy. This has to stop! What kind of company chooses to make themselves richer over actually helping kids and adults get the medicine they need for allergic reactions?REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 21st, 2016Someone from Farmington, MI writes:
It's disgusting that the CEO would raise the price to this level and give herself a huge pay increase in the process!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 21st, 2016Someone from Ladera Ranch, CA writes:
We need to stop this to show we are human and responsible citizen for kids.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 21st, 2016Someone from Hampton, VA writes:
Unless there is a justified reason for the exorbitant increases, which I cannot fathom existing in any sane universe, I favor a lawsuit stripping every single executive at Mylan of all pay increases from this day forward and putting them into a pool which will be used to replenish medicare, Medicaid, and social security.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 21st, 2016Someone from Tulsa, OK writes:
I went yesterday to pick my 5 year old son Epipen prescription. At the pharmacy, I was told that the price was $760. This is SO OUTRAGEOUS!! The government gives money to pharmaceutical companies for R&D and then they "legally" rob people with prices that don't even make sense. I guess IS BETTER GREED ($300 millions for the executives) THAN SAVING LIVES. CONGRESS, PLEASE PUT THIS PEOPLE IN PRISON!REPORT COMMENTS
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