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RE: Heard about EpiPen CEO?
August 24, 2016 at 9:08 pm
The entire corporate world is like this. Drug prices are the worst of it, but cost of everything is bullshit. We live in an age where you finance a fucking cell phone, where even what should be low cost items are on "flex pay" on QVC and the Home Shopping Network. Where cable TV or satellite TV costs as much as a monthly car payment. Where a pound of meat is 4 to 6 bucks.
None of that shit should cost that much. But it does because we have a corporate world that has monopolized law making and destroyed anti monopoly concepts.
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RE: Heard about EpiPen CEO?
August 24, 2016 at 9:50 pm
Wondering if instead of income redistribution, we should be entertaining legislative proposals to regulate mark ups ??
The Epi-Pen costs (apparently) $2 to manufacturer. Selling for $700 seems a trifle obscene to me.
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RE: Heard about EpiPen CEO?
August 24, 2016 at 9:53 pm
(August 24, 2016 at 8:58 pm)Jesster Wrote: Yeah, I heard about this. This will likely result in a slap of the wrist at most. Her senator father will protect her. I hate this country.
It isn't this country, it is the 62 uber billionaires worldwide setting the global tone of greed. I've mentioned it before, but on CSPAN a few months ago I watched an international press conference interviewing the Chinese Premier, and he used the same economic right wing bullshit excuse our GOP does here "Now is not the time to raise taxes on the rich".
"Conservative" isn't a boarder issue, it is a class issue. "Conservative" isn't a political issue, it is a class issue. It is the same worldwide, a money class, and everyone else.
That is why I hate the misuse of the word "capitalism" as if it is a form of government. It is not. There is not one government in the world that does not invest in the global market, friend and foe alike. There are only more open markets and more strictly controlled markets. There are parties that monopolize the wealth, or a family that monopolizes the wealth, or a class. But all of them are forms of monopolies.
America is still better off, yes, but it is a race to the bottom for us and we will end up looking like China or India,s sweat shop poverty wage market if we allow our GOP to continue to control the narrative.
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RE: Heard about EpiPen CEO?
August 24, 2016 at 11:14 pm
It's shit like this that reminds me to keep filling my pitchfork and torches collections. I have a feeling we'll be needing them soon.
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RE: Heard about EpiPen CEO?
August 24, 2016 at 11:18 pm
profiteering from the sick.
These bastards should be prosecuted.
Or persecuted.
Or electrocuted.
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RE: Heard about EpiPen CEO?
August 24, 2016 at 11:49 pm
This scares me. I have to rely on an Epi Pen for my allergies to nuts because it's life threatening allergy. If the cost is that expensive, my insurance company might decide that they are no longer going to pay for it. So if that happens, my life just became worthless to my insurance company simply because the drug company is too greedy to lower the cost to something reasonable.
It is a sad day when one's own life is threatened by the greed of a pharmaceutical company's desire to keep their bottom line full.
I wish I didn't have to depend on an Epi Pen, but my allergies don't give me any other option.
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RE: Heard about EpiPen CEO?
August 24, 2016 at 11:52 pm
It's a safe bet your insurance company has negotiated a far, far better price than the uninsured have to pay.
...which in and of itself is fucked up.
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RE: Heard about EpiPen CEO?
August 24, 2016 at 11:58 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2016 at 11:58 pm by Joods.)
How does that work? I get my scripts filled at Walgreens. If I call them and then call Rite-Aid or CVS and ask all three how much the EpiPen costs for my ins. company, I will get three different answers. I know because I used to get my scripts filled at Weis and then I switched to Rite-Aid and finally Walgreens because they are open 24/7 and I like the convenience.
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RE: Heard about EpiPen CEO?
August 25, 2016 at 12:00 am
(August 24, 2016 at 11:49 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: This scares me. I have to rely on an Epi Pen for my allergies to nuts because it's life threatening allergy. If the cost is that expensive, my insurance company might decide that they are no longer going to pay for it. So if that happens, my life just became worthless to my insurance company simply because the drug company is too greedy to lower the cost to something reasonable.
It is a sad day when one's own life is threatened by the greed of a pharmaceutical company's desire to keep their bottom line full.
I wish I didn't have to depend on an Epi Pen, but my allergies don't give me any other option.
Adrenaclick: http://adrenaclick.com/
Same thing (epinephrine). Sold at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club for about $140.
It works a bit differently from Epi Pen, though.
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RE: Heard about EpiPen CEO?
August 25, 2016 at 12:04 am
(August 24, 2016 at 11:58 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: How does that work? I get my scripts filled at Walgreens. If I call them and then call Rite-Aid or CVS and ask all three how much the EpiPen costs for my ins. company, I will get three different answers. I know because I used to get my scripts filled at Weis and then I switched to Rite-Aid and finally Walgreens because they are open 24/7 and I like the convenience. I think the major retail pharmacies all negotiate separately with insurers and don't get the same deals. Same goes with healthcare providers.
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