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To: P-Marlowe
How evil of a company to attempt to make a "profit."

When it is a Government-protected monopoly obtained through corrupt political connections, - yes, the very existence of the company is evil.

The EpiPen has about $7 per unit of direct manufacturing costs. In a truly free-market economy there would be several companies making them and the retail cost per unit would probably be $40-$60.

And BTW, the device was developed by a different company under a US-Military-funded program. What we have here is socialized costs and privatized profits.

Evil.

21 posted on 09/02/2016 3:31:43 PM PDT by flamberge (What next?)
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To: flamberge

That information needed to be noted in the original post. If that is the case, then this is worse than evil.


24 posted on 09/02/2016 4:18:07 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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