Posted on 08/27/2016 11:45:21 AM PDT by amorphous
I think the writer meant they derived the current EpiPen hardware from the military’s device. Doesn’t matter what you fill it with.
According to Consumer Reports Adrenaclick is available from Walmart and Sam’s Club for about $140. http://www.livescience.com/55911-epipen-alternatives.html
The epipen delivery system cannotbe patented. Any company can use it since it was developed by the US for the military.
If people would get the word out that there are alternatives available via the internet, the free publicity would be able to counter Mylan’s expensive tv advertising. It is called competition. Mylan would eventually need to drop it’s price drastically.
Agree.
Of course it has, and it's not something that only happens in the US. But that said, the US has never seen such fascist control of business and labor by government as we're seeing today. Something far worse than the minor cronyism we've experience in our past.
Today, America's money, defense, manufacturing, healthcare, policing, morals, infrastructure, benevolence, and even reliance on God, have all been injured, and in some cases, almost completely destroyed by our runaway government in collaboration with multinationals.
The Republican Party, not the Democrats, were the catalysts for Crony Capitalism; a post Civil War creation that developed from the incestuous relationship between the GOP and the Mercantile Class; up to Herbert Hoover. Reality.
Exactly right. It initially blossomed from the cozy relationship between the GOP and the Mercantile Class. Then as the 19th century matured, it encompassed the industrial barons of the great industries.
Ok. Where is the list of alternatives?
"I have yet to find confirmation about inaccurate dosages in the superior Auvi-Q ******************"
It’s not the nature of the evidence; it’s the seriousness of the charge.
Precisely raising the question of antitrust(competition law) involved with EpiPen.
As an aside, let me mention another 'coincidence'...
Since two of my children required access to EpiPens/Auvi-Q auto-injectors over the years due to severe allergies (nuts, peanuts, shellfish, seafood, penicillin, sulfa), we also had to have immediate access to Benadryl and were instructed to provide the Benadryl first.
One of the most convenient ways to carry/store the Benadryl was also pulled from the market about the same time...
Too many coincidences, if you ask me.
Just by the way...Senator Manchin's recent behavior may have triggered Hillary's attack on this issue...
Don’t forget, Bresch, then-Gov. Joe Manchin’s POS daughter tried to pass herself off as having an EMBA. After an attempted cover-up by WVU, it was rescinded.
Also the president, provost and a dean of WVU were forced to resign for trying to cover for her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University_M.B.A._controversy
Having a Governor, now Senator, for a Daddy can be beneficial.....one way or another
Clinton Donor CEO who gouged price of EpiPen is daughter of democrat senator
nypost.com/ ^ | 8/24/16 | AP
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As a pharmaceutical company run by U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin’s daughter faces scrutiny for hiking prices on life-saving allergy injection pens, Manchin is remaining mum.
The Democratic West Virginia senator’s daughter, Heather Bresch, is CEO of Mylan, which manufactures EpiPens.
A two-dose package cost around $94 nine years ago. The cost averaged more than six times that in May.
Manchin spokesman Jonathan Kott said Wednesday the senator had no comment.
Company Gouging Price Of EpiPens Is A Clinton Foundation Donor And Partner
Read more:
From Heather Bresch’s Wiki page
Between 2009 and May 2016, under Bresch’s tenure as Mylan president, Mylan raised the price of a set of pens by nearly 500 %, from $103.50 to $608.61.[29]
Proxy filings show that from 2007 to 2015, Bresch’s compensation went from $2,453,456 to $18,931,068, a 671 percent increase. During the same period, EpiPen prices went from $56.64 to $317.82, a 461 percent increase, according to data provided by Connecture.[31]
Wasn’t Manchin one of the holdouts who had to be bought to pass Obamacare?
Fair distinction.
You were Gored !!!
“Its discontinuation didn’t have to do with its effectiveness. Rather, Primatene Mist was withdrawn from the market in the United States in accordance with the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, drafted in 1987. That treaty determined that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which include the chemical used to propel inhalants in Primatene Mist, were damaging the ozone layer and should be discontinued. Inhalers using CFCs have since been replaced with ones that use the non-CFC chemical hydrofluoroalkane (HFA).”
Thanks for the ping, LucyT. OUTSTANDING post amorphous. Thanks. BTTT!
Correct! I mention this only as an aside in the historical aspect of the subject...
The medical profession, so closely linked with the government, also stinks badly. Corruption abounds in this Country. It will take true diligence and lots of courage to break it’s back.
Last refill I got some stupid purple disk that left my mouth full of powder. After trying the disk for a week and popping a rib from coughing I went back to my doctor and got him to tell the pharmacy company that I needed the real stuff.
No, Symbicort uses HFA, the replacement for CFC. There are two problems, it doesn’t work as well as CFC droplets and it is more expensive. They are both good for getting powder deep into the lungs according to legit blind studies. But other people say nothing works as well as CFC and small droplets. So now you are basically stuck with some sort of powder. There are supposedly better ways of making powder, but there is a lot of weepy ozone layer propaganda even in the medical literature. AFAICT the CFC would create tiny droplets even with a powder, then evaporate and deposit the medicine. The HFA just helps spew powder. But that’s a quick read so I could be wrong.
BTW, with any such powders you are supposed to rinse and spit it out.
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