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EpiPen's 400 percent price hike tells us a lot about what's wrong with American health care
EpiPen's 400 percent price hike tells us a lot about what's wrong with American health care
The EpiPen was invented in the 1970s by a biomedical engineer, Sheldon Kaplan, who was searching for a way to treat allergic reactions quickly. What he came up with was the EpiPen we know today: a pen-like device that delivers a premeasured dose of the hormone epinephrine in emergency situations.
vox.com




That's just wrong. There should be a law :-(
Sadly the law is supply and demand.
There should be alternative products, and more competition
Not exactly. The law is government-granted monopoly. Their potential competitors had trouble getting FDA approval. And the alternatives that do exist are not considered replacements, so if you get prescribed an EpiPen, you have to get an EpiPen.
It's explained in this NY Times article
The American regulatory system is odd because they can decide what drugs go on the market, but not what can be charged for them.