Posted on 08/24/2016 5:39:58 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Instructions are almost identical:
Epipen: Short version...”Remove safety caps, place needle end against the thigh and press firmly for 10 seconds.”
Adrenaclick: “Short version...”Remove safety caps, place red color needle end against the thigh and press firmly for 10 seconds.”
https://www.epipen.com/about-epipen/how-to-use-epipen
http://adrenaclick.com/how_to_use_adrenaclick_epinephrine_injection_USP_auto_injector.php
$486. price difference for 2 “pens”. ($630./2 vs. $144./2)
And another Freeper said she donated to the Clinton Foundation. This needs to be investigated further, is she getting away with this because of special favors? This is peoples lives they are gambling with solely for profit. Can you imagine the hell of corruption that is going to go down if Hillary is elected?
Hey West Virginia,
This from the family of your Senator’s family?
Mookabooker, Manchin has been screwing the good folks of West Virginia for decades and you fools keep voting for hhis sorry ass.
He supports our presidents shutting down Coal, your biggest industry destroying JOBS.
And his family values, his daughter is killing folks.
Keep it up, Stoopids.
Isn’t Bresch the one who got a Masters at WVU but never took the classes?
See..the Democrats care about people!
“What if that consumer isn’t financially able to pay for it?”
If the demand gets low, the prices will, too. Do you think the company would keep its prices high if there are no customers to purchase? Freemarket sorts itself out.
Hoppy talking about this?
Kind of hard to have the market determine when the government plan being Obamacare has made the epi-pen the only one Obamacare will pay for.
I would look into trips to Canada every 18 months.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/epipen-price-1.3734214
No price change in Canada
Pfizer Canada distributes EpiPens through a license from Mylan, which owns the brand.
A spokesperson for Pfizer Canada said the price has not changed and there are no plans to do so.
In Canada, drug prices are regulated by the Patent Medicine Prices Review Board.
“We can confirm that, at this time, there are no investigations or hearings ongoing with respect to EpiPen,” a spokesperson for the board said in an email.
In an emergency, the syringe is jabbed against the thigh. The needle inside injects the epinephrine into muscle tissue.
Back-to-school season is a good time to check the expiry dates on epinephrine injectors, said Beatrice Povolo, director of advocacy and media relations for Food Allergy Canada. Schools often ask students with severe allergies to bring an auto-injector to school and sometimes ask for a back-up device to deliver the life-saving medication.
The devices last about 12 to 18 months
Like i said the stock dropped and now it will slowly rise back up. They buy low and sell high.
In the meantime the company lowers it insanely over priced product. They sell their product no matter because they bill the medicaid/government half?
Everybody in on it ..profits!
This has been framed as an issue of patients being denied a life saving medication. That is simply not true. The Epi-pen is about the delivery system, not the med itself. There is no way I could afford such a high co-pay. I could afford needles, pre-filled syringes or single dose vials of epinephrine.
It is not “Epi-pen or die.” There are other options although not as convenient as an Epi-pen. It takes less thought & skill for a patient to use a prefilled auto injector than it does to learn how to fill a syringe with an appropriate dosage of a particular medication. Diabetics, especially those on a sliding scale, do it all the time.
The solution lies in patient education about other ways to administer epinephrine in an emergency.
They know you need it and there aren’t many substitutes out there so they can charge whatever they wish.
What’s the price of an aspirin in the hospital these days? $5, $10, $20?
Well as I live and breathe the company is going to help customers with the costs.....imagine that.
Haven’t listened to him since the floods.
“Well as I live and breathe the company is going to help customers with the costs.....imagine that.”
The company’s only responsibility is to maximize shareholders’ value. If that involves PR moves like “helping with prices”, so be it, but, otherwise, that is NOT what a responsible company should do.
I hear you about the warnings @ Humira. I was barely able to turn my head, bend at the waist or turn at the waist when I walked into an A.S. specialists office. The A.S. is also in my knees having turned my cartilage into shag carpeting, and is also in my left hip.
Since A.S. is an inflammation disease, I was also one of the lucky few who's heart had enlarged from it as well.
So I'm a pretty severe case as far as Ankylosing Spondylitis goes.
When the specialist saw me walk into his office he knew right there and then I was one of the more severe cases he'd seen over his 30 years diagnosing and treating the disease. He had my medical history sent to him from my GP and my orthopedic surgeon, along with the blood test showing me being positive for HLA-B27, the genetic marker for Ankylosing Spondylitis.
I was diagnosed at 48 years of age with it. I was suffering from it for about 10 years taking all the NSAIDS, doing physical therapy, working out and doing everything I could to keep the disease at bay. Time ran out for me and the disease caught up to me. By the time I'd gotten to the specialist I'd already made up my mind I had to do something different and Humira was it.
To say it's been a life changing drug for me would be an understatement. I can turn my head easily now. Not quite as far as I should be able to, but pretty close. I can bend at the waist and pick things up off the floor, I can twist, turn and do everything I should be able to at almost 54 years old now.
My lower back hasn't felt this good in years. My knees don't hurt (as much, the cartilage needs to be cleaned up still) and my left hip doesn't ache like hell anymore.
As for all the possible dangers, my specialist says he's been prescribing it for almost 20 years now and hasn't had a single case of cancer or any of the other serious side effects.
I think my risk of my heart exploding without it (since A.S. can enarge one's major organs --- as it did to me) outweighed any of the other potential side effects, at least in my opinion.
I can get on my bike now and pedal 40 miles in a day. I couldn't do that before. Knees, back, neck wouldn't tolerate it. I do just fine now.
That's my experience anyway. If you want to chat, drop me a freepmail and we can hookup on skype or something.
“I appreciate what you’re saying, but you are also saying they’re worth a lot of money then too, right?”
Food is vital to everyone. Shall we endorse a 1000% increase on food? And water! That better increase, too.
Couldn’t happen - there’s competition and no Obamacare on food.
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