EpiPen price skyrockets 400%
What I find interesting… Mylan’s President is the daughter of Sen Manchin (D-VA)… The Senator has proposed a OPIATE TAX and one of Mylan’s major products is Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen… which is taking a volume/profit hit because the DEA changed this product to a C-II a couple of years ago… So now that the only competitor to Mylan’s Epi-pen has had a voluntary recall.. they are “the only game in town”… Are they trying to regain the profits they believe that they have lost…. because of the actions or proposed actions of the FEDS.
Following the “money trail” is like tracing a spider web…
On Fox Business today they had the Mother of a son who died 3 yrs ago because of a food allergy. Which has created a FOUNDATION to help make sure that no one goes without access to this necessary medication.. and no one loses someone to allergic reactions.
Perhaps the chronic pain community needs to take notice of what is going on around us… ONLY DEAD BODIES GET ATTENTION OF THE MEDIA !
The chronic pain community have DEAD BODIES… from pts being thrown into cold turkey withdrawal and dying because of that in combination with their co-morbidity issues… those who have committed suicide because their quality of life was flushed down the crapper because of reduced or eliminated pain medication.
As I have heard before with the media ” IF IT BLEEDS IT LEADS “… Your disease, your suffering is INVISIBLE … is our society making those who die from various reason associated with the inadequate/non-treatment of your pain … also INVISIBLE ?
If you have a friend/relative that dies because of lack of adequate medical care committed suicide… please don’t stand around the casket saying ” at s/he is no suffering any more”… “s/he is now at peace”… and other platitudes… Where is the OUT RAGE that making sure than no one else has to go down that path ?
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Doesn’t a senator having a family member that’s a president / CEO of a company whose lobbyists help to dictate drug policy in DC create a serious conflict of interest? I thought that this is the exact reason why the Clinton Foundation and Hillary have been taking so much flack by the Republican party and Donald Jaggoff Trump. I’m willing to bet that if anyone were to connect all the dots and follow every single dime from big pharma and the addiction recovery industry that the coruption and favoritism of the public RAPING, Greed Driven capitalistic assholes like Phoenix House and Mylan Pharacuticals would run much deeper than just Senator Manchin. As a matter of fact, I’ll bet that over 90% of elected officials are in the pockets of Big Pharma, Addiction Recovery and a host of other big industry. That’s why we need to vote them all out in November and start kicking their lobbyists out of our nation’s capital.