Clinton Foundation Partner Hiked Opioid Overdose Reversal Drug Price By 680 Percent

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 2/12/17 | Joe Schoffstall

[Mercat]

“community organizers”????

[ColdOne]

Strange huh...opiods have spread thru the country these last 4 years.

[Slyfox]

Does anyone remember when The Rodham went after all the EVIL drug companies?

[DesertRhino]

We would be better off without that drug anyway. Dopers die, no skin off my nose, Hope the dopers can se how much the democrat buddies care about them.

[raybbr]

First, get Americans addicted to opioids. Check!

Next, devise a drug that will save them from an overdose. Check!

Then, lobby politicians to require that all police, fire and first responders carry the drug. Check!

Then, raise the price! Check!

Sounds about right for a swamp.

[Karl Spooner]

Now we know why they want to ban the cheap herb, Kratom, which is highly effective in treating opioid addiction.

[ChildOfThe60s]

This is all theater in my opinion. Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this drug primarily used by First Responders? If so it’s local government is paying for it. Since when did the Democrats give a rat’s ass about government paying for anything?

[ConservativeMind]

Liberals take these drugs this way. I don't know a single conservative or Christian who overdoses on them when purchased legally for pain management.

Let the overdosers pay the high cost of their abuse.

[A_perfect_lady]

Have to admit, it’s clever: open the borders, let the heroin flow in, and then sell the antidote at high prices. It’s like something the Joker would have come up with. Here’s hoping DJT is Batman.

[Sacajaweau]

Let’s be real....the chief target market is the government. YOUR government dollars at work.

[markomalley]

Let’s be real....the chief target market is the government. YOUR government dollars at work.

Let's be real…government doesn't pay for anything…you and I pay for it.

[fella]

When your enemies are attacking each other stand back and watch.

[fella]

Something tells me that these Senators don’t think that they got their fair share.

[village idiot]

Narcan, like epinephrine, is cheaper than dirt, and has been around that long. Charging outrageous fees for a delivery system is unacceptable. Get a syringe and ampule of each drug; less than a buck.

[Neoliberalnot]

Go with Narcan which is delivered by the aerosol route. No injector needed and much cheaper. Some public health departments give it away.

[farming pharmer]

The only insurance I ever saw pay for Evizio was the federal health plan (of course, nothing but the best for our tax-eaters). Everyone else gets the nasal spray, which is MUCH cheaper and still works well.

[Agamemnon]

Before Kaleo became Kaleo the firm was known as Intelliject in Richmond, VA.

The founders, twin brothers - one an engineer and the other an MD, patented a device for delivery of epinephrine which was an improvement on the EpiPen. The name of the product was called Auvi-Q and it was approved by FDA in 2013.

The single use device included an audio instructional cue, and the needle, once the medication was discharged, was designed to withdraw automatically back into the device thus preventing "sharps" sticks.

Founders of the company invented the product in part due to their own personal need for a ready supply of epinephrine. Epinephrine administrators are, as patients themselves, their own first responders. They are both of them brilliant guys, and fine Christian men.

The naloxone product was a follow-on, which used the same device technology on which Auvi-Q was based. I do not know this Williamson fellow who is the current president of the company. There was no attachment to the Clinton Foundation of which I was aware at the time the Auvi-Q submission was made to FDA. They later partnered with Sanofi on the introduction of the Auvi-Q product to the market.

The technology is novel and well-designed. That said, like the EpiPen (made by Mylan whose CEO is the daughter of Sen. Joe Manchin) Kaleo's CEO will have some 'splainin' to do to Congress about the absurd run up in price for their naloxone product just like Mylan is in the hot seat for EpiPen.

You'd think after what that pharma vulture CEO, Martin Shkreli did at Turing Pharma, cornering a market and fraudulently jacking up the price of a generic (which sent him to prison), these CEO's would get their acts together really fast and hope they escape such unwelcomed scrutiny themselves.

FReegards!

[GoldenPup]

There really needs to be much more congressional “oversight” on Big Pharma...Big Oil, too. Both industries have been Raping the American public for years and get away with it via massive political contributions.
DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!

[Born to Conserve]

Companies should charge what the market will bear. How else can they decide? It is the fundamental principle of the free market. The CEO is responsible to the stockholders, and has to legally maximize their profits.

When prices get out of whack, it is because the Government has regulated something badly, or because they are really stupid customers paying ridiculous prices, or because there is governmental crime involved.