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To: Neoliberalnot
Good points. Second point is, no one is forcing users to buy them

Not good points.

This is life-saving device for which there is no good substitute. It is also ridiculously cheap to make and was developed from Government funded programs.

In a real free-market capitalistic system, this device would be widely available from different makers and would be inexpensive. There is after all a big demand for them and they are easy to make.

We do not have a free-market system today.

The EpiPen is sold at predatory pricing (literally "your money or your life") to vulnerable patients because of corrupt deals between A Democrat Congress thief and the MyLan CEO. In fact they are relatives.

Of course those patients have a "choice". They can pay what the monopoly supplier demands - or they can die.

Other choices should be considered.

28 posted on 09/03/2016 4:09:27 PM PDT by flamberge (What next?)
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To: flamberge

The Epi-Pen is about the delivery system, not the med. No one likes to inject themselves or a loved one, but diabetics do it all the time. The key is in patient education.

Epi-Pen or death is a false choice.


29 posted on 09/03/2016 4:32:28 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: flamberge

If they are so easy to make, then make your own. Injectable Epi has been on the market for 60 years. Preposterous that you need an Epi-pen. My brother carried Epi 50 years ago.


34 posted on 09/04/2016 4:54:07 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarm)
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