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Cost of EpiPen: One senator's daughter is Mylan CEO, another's needs drug
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/24/politics/epipens-congress-response/ ^

Posted on 08/24/2016 2:33:53 PM PDT by doghorse

Washington (CNN)The incredible increase in the cost of EpiPens, auto-injectors that can stop life-threatening emergencies caused by allergic reactions, has hit home on Capitol Hill, where one Democratic senator whose daughter has allergies has called for action and another Democratic senator's daughter is CEO of the company responsible for the price hike. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, a Democrat whose daughter relies on EpiPen, urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate the price increase of the medication, calling it "unjustified." Meanwhile, the daughter of Sen. Joe Manchin, the Democrat of West Virginia, has a very different personal connection. His daughter Heather Bresch heads Mylan, the company that produces EpiPens.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Minnesota; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: 114th; adrenaclick; ceo; epinephrine; epipen; medicine; mylan
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To: TexasFreeper2009
HELLO there are CHEAPER generic alternatives!

Name them! The FDA shut down a generic competitor on a ruse charge. There are no recognized competitors by design.

41 posted on 08/24/2016 4:32:59 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Our security has been hacked, media and politicians bought off and you've been brainwashed.)
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To: onona
Thanx ... I might have my pens mixed up

There's an alleged heroin epidemic happening in the tro state area and they gace classes to the teachers on how to use an epi type delivery for heroin overdose.

42 posted on 08/24/2016 4:33:14 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true ... and it pisses people off.)
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To: IYAS9YAS; doghorse

Doghorse is right...and try self administering (being able to pull to correct dose—from the script lable) when you are anaphaltic or you are administering to someone else). Scary doesn’t sum it up.


43 posted on 08/24/2016 4:37:39 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom ( Just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you...))
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To: doghorse

Haha not only that but various states have passed laws requiring schools to have these epipens stocked in every school so make them mandatory so have government buying them by the millions and then jack up the cost 500% as well.. It’s the classic scam


44 posted on 08/24/2016 4:41:14 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Nailbiter

for


45 posted on 08/24/2016 4:42:36 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: Roccus

671% increase in compensation over 8 yrs. Unreal....


46 posted on 08/24/2016 4:54:04 PM PDT by DrJeff
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To: knarf

Yes there is. My nephew had to have it administered, and it worked thank God. Perhaps call the local PD ? or Staties ? That’s who administered it to the kid.


47 posted on 08/24/2016 6:30:56 PM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: DrJeff

Not bad.....for a fraud.


48 posted on 08/24/2016 6:32:27 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician, any politician, just say, "Remember Ceaucescu"))
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To: doghorse; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Paging Martin Shkreli! Martin Shkreli, please pick up the black courtesy phone! Thank you!

PING!


49 posted on 08/25/2016 6:11:14 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cuckservative: a "conservative" willing to raise another country's ideology in his own country)
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