EpiPen Price Rise Sparks Concern for Allergy Sufferers

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Post by helloworld » Mon, Aug 22, 2016, 11:44 PM UTC

EpiPen Price Rise Sparks Concern for Allergy Sufferers
well.blogs.nytimes.com

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Post by helloworld » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 12:08 AM UTC

Why haven't competitors entered the market with cheaper products?

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Post by FLUX-YOU » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 12:09 AM UTC

helloworld wrote: post #2

Why haven't competitors entered the market with cheaper products?

Patent on the injection system I believe

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 12:09 AM UTC

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Post by blackguardx » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 12:14 AM UTC

helloworld wrote: post #2

Why haven't competitors entered the market with cheaper products?

It isn't a free market. There are significant barriers to entry for medical products.

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Post by pg_is_a_butt » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 12:14 AM UTC

helloworld wrote: post #2

Why haven't competitors entered the market with cheaper products?

because you're all cowards, and the justice department takes money from the companies who are leveraging a medical survival need to generate profits for a private company who built themselves on grants and research paid with public money.

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Post by serge2k » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 12:17 AM UTC

Well you know, they need to recoup the R&D costs to develop the drug.

> Mylan, the pharmaceutical company, acquired the decades-old product in 2007, when pharmacies paid less than $100 for a two-pen set

Oh.

This is why US health care is broken people.

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Post by serge2k » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 12:18 AM UTC

helloworld wrote: post #2

Why haven't competitors entered the market with cheaper products?

> Last year, the drug maker Sanofi recalled a competing product, Auvi-Q, because it may not have been delivering the correct amount of epinephrine, leaving the EpiPen as the primary emergency treatment for severe allergic reactions.

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Post by hoodoof » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 12:22 AM UTC

Mylan refers the press to their local politicians "go talk to them about it, we pay our lobbying fees to get whoever we want elected specifically so we can charge any price we want, you can't do a damn thing - it's a free country".

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Post by eliben » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 12:23 AM UTC

If the product is decades-old, why haven't generic variants appeared?

Something seems to be missing from this article.