Obama created anaphylactic shock, just like he did ISIS. FACT!
DAMN. It's right here on the interweb. It has to be true!
Obama created anaphylactic shock, just like he did ISIS. FACT!
fifyeverything is and always has been fraught with political maneuvering. I wish I could be surprised at this.
I haven't fooled with an EpiPen, but I'd bet the mechanism is the same. From what JThomas 666 describes it, it sure sounds like an atropine injector.TW, isn't this basically the same product as the old military atropine injectors?
The LvMI article shows that the Mylan company patents each little part one after the other as a way to extend the patent. I'd bet one year, the company patented the spring (as if they had invented springs). Then, when that part's patent is about to expire, the patent the needle, and so on and so on...The patent process is and always has been fraught with political maneuvering. I wish I could be surprised at this.
I had an hours-long conversation with Joe Stromberg in the LvMI library there one day. Stromberg is enormously well-read and a very good author.
Lew Rockwell, on the other hand, was deeply suspicious of me when I met him.
Well, I was a guest, so I excused myself.I've never met Lew but I've seen him speak live and frankly he sort of weirds me out, something just off about him and I feel like it is not just the normal AU cult stuff. He's just odd
This is the primary issue. It's not a capitalism issue, but rather a regulation issue...They get special protection from the FDA at every turn to inhibit competition then jack up their prices.
I dont see where her father is important to this problem at all. Its a matter of corporate greed.If the CEO's dad was Orrin Hatch or Mike Pence my Facebook would be exploding right now from shares of a Huff Post article.
... and Federal malfeasance. The corporate greed would be self-defeating if the Federal government did not step in to stop Mylan's competition.I dont see where her father is important to this problem at all. Its a matter of corporate greed.
I'm not familiar with what the Feds have done in this case, can you explain?... and Federal malfeasance. The corporate greed would be self-defeating if the Federal government did not step in to stop Mylan's competition.
It would be more accurate to say that the company is taking advantage of the fact that the federal government's own regulatory scheme has given them a medical monopoly. Clinton wants to cast herself and the government as the cure for this problem. It's actually the cause in any number of ways.
The Wall Street Journal detailed extensively as Clinton threw herself into the conflict that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made it very difficult for competitors to enter the marketplace and push prices downward. Epinephrine is cheap and EpiPens have been around for decades. Their prices should be trending downward not upward. But the FDA's complicated (and ambiguous) process of approving other drug delivery systems has kept competitors off the market. And to be clear, there are other companies trying to participate and demonstrate they can provide safe alternatives
Here's a link to one article:I'm not familiar with what the Feds have done in this case, can you explain?
The article contains a link to a Wall Street Journal column that you might find of interest as well.The Wall Street Journal detailed extensively as Clinton threw herself into the conflict that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made it very difficult for competitors to enter the marketplace and push prices downward. Epinephrine is cheap and EpiPens have been around for decades. Their prices should be trending downward not upward. But the FDA's complicated (and ambiguous) process of approving other drug delivery systems has kept competitors off the market. And to be clear, there are other companies trying to participate and demonstrate they can provide safe alternatives...
Not that it will have any effect, but here it goes.I'm not familiar with what the Feds have done in this case, can you explain?
Note: An earlier version cited the original 1977 patent for the EpiPen. While it has expired, since 1977 EpiPen producers have been able to secure multiple patents for other aspects and variations of the design and small parts associated with the design. A link to one of these patents has replaced the original link to the 1977 patent, above.
I win!Here's a link to one article:
http://reason.com/blog/2016/08/25/want-to-reduce-the-price-of-epipens-appr
The article contains a link to a Wall Street Journal column that you might find of interest as well.
Edit: My apologies for the dupe Bodhi.
It seems that the pen and phone could have been used to reduce EpiPen prices...much like they were probably used to cancel the Redskins trademark.
100% accurate, if her Dad had an R after his name it would be everywhereIf the CEO's dad was Orrin Hatch or Mike Pence my Facebook would be exploding right now from shares of a Huff Post article.
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So if I could sum it up. Mylan is taking advantage of the FDA, patent laws and overall federal bureaucracy to unfairly maximize their profits on this but not, as others have said, protected Mylan because the CEO's father is a democrat.
I don't agreeSo if I could sum it up. Mylan is taking advantage of the FDA, patent laws and overall federal bureaucracy to unfairly maximize their profits on this but not, as others have said, protected Mylan because the CEO's father is a democrat.