[amorphous]

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[rey]

This is why free and open markets are important.

[RegulatorCountry]

Run up the price to a bizarre degree on a medicine or medical device with a monopoly or nearly so, crash the healthcare system and make a few Democrat billionaires in the process, what’s not for a Democrat to like?

[DAC21]

Crony Capitalism at it’s worst brought to you by the corrupt Democrat party, and the corrupt FDA. I bet dirt bag Daddy Manchin is up to his eyeballs in sleazy behavior to help his little baby rake it in.

[LucyT]

The EpiPen Scandal Is Worse Than You Think: What You’re Not Being Told

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[Brian Griffin]

sublingual epinephrine

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16461140

[miele man]

As a beekeeper, I always kept an AnaKit and then later an EpiPen on hand in case someone near my hives got stung and reacted. In the late 90s and through the early 2000s, they were relatively inexpensive.

I learned through a pharmacist friend that I could buy Primatene Mist inhalers and a generic brand from WalMart that each contained epinephrine and which could be used in place of the injectors since the epinephrine entered the blood stream much, much faster. The last Primatene Mist inhaler I bought was in 2009. Walmarts’ brand was removed from the shelves around the same time, much to my disgust. Now I know why. Big Pharma and big corruption and greed strike once again.

Thankfully, no one around my hives has ever been stung by my bees except for me.

[PGR88]

A perfect example of how statism, socialism, politics and crony-capitalism combine in the USA

[wtd]

I have yet to find confirmation about inaccurate dosages in the superior Auvi-Q

[Rockitz]

This should have been more widely viewed as a perfect example of RAT crony capitalism. RATs always like to have government top cover when they engage in capitalism.

[JDoutrider]

The original auto injector device used by the military (Mark I NAAK ComboPen) to ease the effects of nerve gas contained Atropine... not epinephrine.

[Mr. Jeeves]

What we’re not being told is the name “Senator Joe Manchin (D)” - which has been conspicuously absent from most news reports on EpiPen so far.

[Original Lurker]

Crony capitalism is not new to the US.
It’s been around since the 1850’s. It’s visceral in American business.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

The sad part is, I have no trouble believing that Mylan might have jacked up the price at the request of the Clinton's, in order to gin up a "health care crisis" that Hilary could then "solve" and look Presidential doing so.

[finnsheep]

According to Consumer Reports Adrenaclick is available from Walmart and Sam’s Club for about $140. http://www.livescience.com/55911-epipen-alternatives.html

The epipen delivery system cannotbe patented. Any company can use it since it was developed by the US for the military.

If people would get the word out that there are alternatives available via the internet, the free publicity would be able to counter Mylan’s expensive tv advertising. It is called competition. Mylan would eventually need to drop it’s price drastically.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Wasn’t Manchin one of the holdouts who had to be bought to pass Obamacare?

[Bellflower]

The medical profession, so closely linked with the government, also stinks badly. Corruption abounds in this Country. It will take true diligence and lots of courage to break it’s back.