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Bad day for EpiPen maker Mylan as Sarah Jessica Parker steps down as face of company [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 25, 2016 | James Wilkonson

Posted on 08/26/2016 6:19:31 AM PDT by C19fan

Sarah Jessica Parker has stepped down as the face of pharma company Mylan after it emerged the company had raised the price of its life-saving EpiPens by 548 per cent. In a post on Instagram Thursday, the 'Sex and the City' actress said she was 'disappointed, saddened and deeply concerned' and called for Mylan to reverse the price hike. Her announcement came the same day that the beleaguered company - which has faced an outpouring of scorn since the price increase came to light - was challenged by Senator Joe Manchin, father of Mylan CEO Heather Bresch.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: celebrities; clinton; drugs; epipen; manchin; mylan
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To: C19fan

Better yet: will HRC return the $100K the company “donated” to the Clinton Foundation?


41 posted on 08/26/2016 7:37:22 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Lurker

Make sure you get the right concentration if you do.


42 posted on 08/26/2016 7:45:07 AM PDT by Styria
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To: Rome2000

Why all the hatred directed at Parker?


43 posted on 08/26/2016 7:48:44 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: cymbeline
There are other auto inject solutions.

http://www.epinephrineautoinject.com/

The problem is education and awareness. When a Dr writes a script for “EpiPen” they have to give them exactly an EpiPen. That is their trump card. If they would write a generic script and let the pharmacist show the patient how to use the particular device being dispensed, this problem would go away.

44 posted on 08/26/2016 7:54:25 AM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: cymbeline

I sould also mention that while the pens shuld be cheap to make, the giummit aproval process for each design would be, well...


45 posted on 08/26/2016 7:56:57 AM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: C19fan

Probably not.


46 posted on 08/26/2016 8:07:36 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: pabianice

LOL

That’s a good one!


47 posted on 08/26/2016 8:07:43 AM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: C19fan

How did she get picked to be the face for anyone?

Yikes!

They should be prosecuted for that alone...


48 posted on 08/26/2016 8:09:42 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

For those needing Epi-Pens at a somewhat reasonable cost, check out NorthWest Pharmaceuticals.com out of Canada.

They have many medications they can ship to the US mail order, often at a much cheaper price than you can get them here.

And they even can ship you medications available other places in the world that you can’t get here is you can find a doctor who will write the Rx.

Don’t ask.....


49 posted on 08/26/2016 8:10:53 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: C19fan

They have a vet meds division?


50 posted on 08/26/2016 9:34:19 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Rome2000

SJP’s face should be on a box of oatmeal, since horses eat oats.


51 posted on 08/26/2016 9:46:21 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: All

Further proof the media is run by nutjobs: Sarah Jessica Parker is considered “attractive”.


52 posted on 08/26/2016 9:48:58 AM PDT by Maverick68 (p)
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To: Rome2000

i think you are talking about the wrong end of the horse.


53 posted on 08/26/2016 10:41:09 AM PDT by old gringo (a wise monkey never monkeys with another monkeys monkey.)
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To: DesertRhino

?????? She’s an actress. She does not control drug prices.


54 posted on 08/26/2016 6:41:08 PM PDT by Timmy
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To: C19fan

Read something that told of some EMT’s that bought epinephrine (it’s cheap), put it together with syringes in kits, and trained their personnel to use them, thus avoiding getting reamed for EpiPens. Americans will find a way.


55 posted on 08/26/2016 8:28:34 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

Where’s the post on the 2900% profit made after the H tweet on Epipens?


56 posted on 08/26/2016 8:36:38 PM PDT by combat_boots (MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
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To: 1Old Pro

I’m the side effect Queen, so I know most drugs don’t work, and have to many side effects you aren’t told about.

Then you hit situations like my Niece’s the STUPID Primary she is stuck with because of her ins plan, won’t send her to the right doctors, she needs a Hemo, Gastro, Neuro and Rhuemy, she can’t keep food down, frequent ER trips, where they accuse her of wanting pain meds. All she wants is the Puking stopped. Primary says she has RA based on just X-Rays, puts her on GUT destroying MOBIC for the joint pain not a RA med...duh blood test tells you that. Liver damage from the pills they put her on for seizure issues, Red cells are now abnormal..that is a Hemo’s field. GI issues are a Gastro’s and seizures don’t need a Malaria drug that causes seizures. DUMB IDIOTS. All they’ve run is CT with no contrast as she pukes it up, to stupid to put it in IV line. NO EEG or EKG, no Thyroid panel, screwed up her knee surgery for torn ligament so knee will never be right. She hasn’t hit 30 yet.

Our property taxes keep going up, and we don’t see any improved services. Just the opposite and we are in a semi-rural community with no big businesses all fast food, nail places and a drug store we can’t even use as it doesn’t take Tricare Life. Co-pays keep going up too. But no COLA raise for this year. Congress got a big fat pay raise.


57 posted on 08/27/2016 5:44:00 AM PDT by GailA (If politicians won't keep their promises to the Military, they won't keep them to you!)
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