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With the price of everything else going up, who knows, maybe the company has to pay more to produce it.
Only if you mean pay their execs more. A LOT more, as in a total compensation hike from 2007 to 2015 for CEO Heather Bresch from $2,453,456 to $18,931,068, a 671 percent increase.
Mylan Execs Gave Themselves Raises As They Hiked EpiPen Prices - NBC News
If she has to put up with labor unions and the government, then she is underpaid.
Yes, many things are and many of them are vile manifestations of greed and a "damn everyone else" attitude. Sad.I am not saying it is right, but it likely is legal.
Yes, many things are and many of them are vile manifestations of greed and a "damn everyone else" attitude. Sad.
They already do whatever the **** they want. The way it is already is whatever the **** they want. The status quo is why these epipen prices just skyrocketed. The system is currently broken.
So yes, I will vote for Gary Johnson who will at least attempt a change, because continuing how we're going isn't sustainable. But you go ahead and vote for Trillary and pretend that something will change even though it won't.
No, that is how anarchy was designed. Even in a pure capitalist system, social responsibility is essential and a requirement for participating in a safe orderly and organized society that allows capitalism to exist and flourish.It is capitalism and its exactly how the country was designed.
Are you saying that previously they were loosing money? If so why not make it $1000.00 or $5000.00, after all what is a number compared to the desire to live or not see your child die?Without the ability to make lots of money off the epipen, it likely would not exist in the first place.
How about reality instead of an exaggerated imaginary extreme?I dont agree. Would you rather live in a socialist system where you can get cheap emergency meds, but are a slave to the state? Or would you rather be free with all the insecurity that freedom brings?
No, that is how anarchy was designed. Even in a pure capitalist system, social responsibility is essential and a requirement for participating in a safe orderly and organized society that allows capitalism to exist and flourish.
Are you saying that previously they were loosing money? If so why not make it $1000.00 or $5000.00, after all what is a number compared to the desire to live or not see your child die?
It may well be market manipulation, it just may be difficult to tell who the manipulator is.Yes, many things are and many of them are vile manifestations of greed and a "damn everyone else" attitude. Sad.
Yeah. That pisses me off.
I only recently became allergic to wasps, and in the last couple years had to make sure I had an epi-pin with me
First year, I paid a 35.00 co-pay.
This year. 750.00.
Un ****ing believable.
This should be illegal.
DO you even have a clue how much was invested, when and if it was made back? Of course not, because if you had you would not have said something so utterly moronic.i guess whoever invested millions developing this should just go bankrupt because 'for the children'?
Great, make it illegal, and nobody will have EpiPens.
Seriously? Do you thing that they were loosing money before?Hmm, so their competitor failed (usually indicating a lack of profitability) and your upset that the remaining company upped their prices. Of course, if you could of answered my previous questions, you might have found that the rise in price was to insure the remaining company does not fold. Without that knowledge, neither thee or me knows for sure.
easy enough solve for this one under the current system : buy a company for the patent and then shoot the price of the medicine through the roof, and you get a significantly shortened patent. under a single payer system, though, the payer would have a lot more leverage to prevent this kind of thing, so that's an idea, as well.
When dealing with the pharma industry, which spends more on lobbying than the defense industry, more on commercials than on product development and as shown hikes CEO salaries by millions, it is a bit poor of an excuse to blame government, not that that could not be a minor factor.As was noted in the article I posted, the government bears at least some of the responsibility for the high price of prescription drugs. EpiPen cost soars, but it's not the only drug to - CNN.com
Yes, because those are the only options. :roll:
When dealing with the pharma industry, which spends more on lobbying than the defense industry, more on commercials than on product development and as shown hikes CEO salaries by millions, it is a bit poor of an excuse to blame government, not that that could not be a minor factor.
First of all, the advertisement myth is just that, a myth. Secondly, I'm not surprised you would so quickly dismiss government culpability. :roll: You'll forgive me if I take the word of experts on the subject over yours.
Price controls never work. Ask Venezuela.
easy enough solve for this one under the current system : buy a company for the patent and then shoot the price of the medicine through the roof, and you get a significantly shortened patent. under a single payer system, though, the payer would have a lot more leverage to prevent this kind of thing, so that's an idea, as well.
I don't understand this one.
You want to set up a system to short circuit patent protection?
Helix said:buy a company for the patent and then shoot the price of the medicine through the roof, and you get a significantly shortened patent.
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