Epi-pens

The company wants to make as much profit as possible before something else hits the market. Every business is out to make money...that`s the main goal of a business. Yes, there are ethics involved in this case, however, it`s up to the CEO to set those standards within the company. I don`t see the CEO stepping in any time soon to help out these people in dire need. His salary has gone from 5 mil/yr up to 19 mil/yr!
 
BTW...at the school I work at, we have to buy epi-pens for those kids who are allergic to certain things/foods. Everyone in the school is trained every year on how to use the pens correctly. So if every elementary in the U.S. has to do the same....you do the math. They care more about making money than saving lives.
 
Edited and removed by original poster as being too controversial and having nothing to do with the topic at hand!
My sincere apologies to those who have read or replied to this particular post.
Lonnie
 
Looks like Mylan has pulled some political strings and done some illegal and immoral things. Has there ever been a case where our government got involved and got a drug company to lower prices? I can`t remember hearing of one? It sounds like they may have avoided taxes, but nothing against the letter of the law, just found one of the many loopholes in the tax laws. I hope this case pushes hard against pharmaceutical companies and price gouging, but I doubt it. The rich get richer and the poor suffer for it.
 
"Medical Economic Euthanasia"? You really believe poor/middle class people should die because they did not choose to become greedy or by luck their parents were rich? That is a sick way of thinking. We should try to take care of our sick and unfortunate. I rarely criticize another persons opinion, because everyone`s opinion differs slightly, but "let the poor die, they deserve it" attitude just does not fly with me. I read what you wrote numerous times to make sure I was not misreading or misinterpreted what you were trying to say. Basically you are saying people without money have no worth and thusly should be put to death. Please tell me I misread your comments. If I did I apologize in advance.
 
Vega@Autopia said:
Man I hate hearing about stuff like this. I`ve been having to buy expensive asthma medication since I could remember and always hated the current system. I pay $300 every two months for my current medication. Hopefully the price will drop in the next year after the patent expires allowing other companies besides Astra Zeneca to manufacture generic versions.

I understand that money is needed to research and develop these drugs, but once they`re approved I think they should be made as cheap as possible. I don`t know how some of these people can sleep at night.
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I`m lucky enough to have asthma and a food allergy lol. Luckily I don`t have to have $150/month medicine
 
This response has been edited and removed by original poster as being too controversial and having nothing to do with the topic at hand!
My sincere apologies to those who have read or replied to this post.
Lonnie
 
I was trying to do some research into the old two stage syringe why it was not being made anymore. Took me a while just to find the name, "Ana-Kit". I found an article that there was a recall in the late 90`s and then it wasn`t going to be produced anymore. That was the kit I started with in the early 90`s then the Epi-pen became popular. Memory isn`t so great but the Ana-kit cost less than $20 then and that was about half the price of the Epi-pen at that time around 40 some dollars I think.

Another thought, didn`t the government go after Microsoft for monopolizing there computer system or something on that matter(memory failure but someone may post it, not going to research that) so why aren`t they going after Mylan? If the injector itself has been around for decades there shouldn`t be any patent infringements for someone to copy it and make it cheaper. I am surprised a big pharmaceutical company hasn`t done this already. Glad to see another company is making an alternative but doesn`t look like it will be out until 2018. But who knows if it will be priced any more reasonable than the Epi-pen.
 
For some members of Congress to complain about Epi-pen, it reminds me of this....just replace the key word for anything.

 
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