EpiPen maker CEO to America: "Go fuck yourselves."

[Jackalope]

http://gizmodo.com/drug-company-chairman...1795816263

It's not even hyperbole.

This is how the New York Times describes Coury’s reaction to critics of Mylan’s price gouging:

Mr. Coury replied that he was untroubled. He raised both his middle fingers and explained, using colorful language, that anyone criticizing Mylan, including its employees, ought to go copulate with themselves. Critics in Congress and on Wall Street, he said, should do the same. And regulators at the Food and Drug Administration? They, too, deserved a round of anatomically challenging self-fulfillment.

[brewer]

I thought the CEO that came under fire was Heather Bresch.

[Minimalist]

All CEOS should be under fire.

[Ravenshire]

All CEOS should be under in the fire.

There. Fixed it for you.

[Fireball]

I'm hoping that some kids in a biology class figure out an inexpensive process for the production thereof and cut that SOB off at the knees.   I just saw this with (I think) a malaria medication being made for way cheap. Someone can correct me if I have the disease wrong.

[Anon2381]

I'm hoping that some kids in a biology class figure out an inexpensive process for the production thereof and cut that SOB off at the knees.   I just saw this with (I think) a malaria medication being made for way cheap. Someone can correct me if I have the disease wrong.

CVS just worked out a deal with Adrenalick (generic epic-pen) 2 for 10$ after 100$ rebate. No insurance needed. 

[Jackalope]

The medication is cheap, its my understanding that it's ordinary epinephrine. It's the delivery system that they're profiteering from, IMO.

[Jackalope]

I'm hoping that some kids in a biology class figure out an inexpensive process for the production thereof and cut that SOB off at the knees.   I just saw this with (I think) a malaria medication being made for way cheap. Someone can correct me if I have the disease wrong.

CVS just worked out a deal with Adrenalick (generic epic-pen) 2 for 10$ after 100$ rebate. No insurance needed. 

That's awesome, however the OP is more about being being an indictment of the sort of people who seem to bubble up to the top than about whatever alternatives do or do not exist for their product.

[Pat Mustard]

I'm hoping that some kids in a biology class figure out an inexpensive process for the production thereof and cut that SOB off at the knees.   I just saw this with (I think) a malaria medication being made for way cheap. Someone can correct me if I have the disease wrong.

Mylans "innovation" is to make a small change to the pen which makes it slightly easier to inject. What should happen at this stage is that the US patent office revokes relevant patents, as they do nothing to protect meaningful innovation (the rationale for patents)

[Jackalope]

I'm hoping that some kids in a biology class figure out an inexpensive process for the production thereof and cut that SOB off at the knees.   I just saw this with (I think) a malaria medication being made for way cheap. Someone can correct me if I have the disease wrong.

Mylans "innovation" is to make a small change to the pen which makes it slightly easier to inject. What should happen at this stage is that the US patent office revokes relevant patents, as they do nothing to protect meaningful innovation (the rationale for patents)

^^^

This, and it seems to be in the industry. Patent, make a small tweak right before the patent expires, get an extension, repatent or extend. It doesn't even have to be a change in formulation, changing it's application can also result in an extension. I used to take an expensive drug that had no generic in the United States. The patents had long since expired everywhere else, but the drug was tested for and subsequently approved for use on minors, and on that basis it was granted a new patent term. It literally was granted a new US patent months before it was prescribed to me, when a generic had been available elsewhere for years. To the best of my recollection.