Mylan increases EpiPen price over 400%

As an EpiPen user... This is crap is infuriating. Complete greed.

I paid $500 last week. I'm grateful that my son can self carry at school, so I didn't have to buy 2 sets.

After reading that statement from Mylan, ITA with Bernie's statement that the drug industry's greed knows no bounds.

It was disgusting when the Martin Schmucky guy did it, and it's disgusting that another company is now doing it with EpiPens.

So repulsive.

Dang, our allergist just called in our refills and now I'm afraid to see what the price will be when I pick them up. I have 3 kids with allergies. :/

That's some bullshit right there.

I just checked on my insurance to see how much they are. I have bee sting allergy and I haven't got an epipen in about 10 years.

461.00. And I have insurance.

Wow, just awful.

     That's a coincidence. I was just suggesting to my DH that we move to New Zealand two days ago. He's in the IT business and you speak English there so it's be a somewhat easy move compared to other countries. But I really don't want to leave my parents. I'm 56 and they are both 76. 

This country has a lot of problems, one of the biggest being healthcare. It's insane that we don't have single payer healthcare in my opinion when every other industrialized nation does. That we have health insurance companies and "Big Pharma" who not only put profit, but greedily put HUGE profits over anything else, even the death of children. 

The ACA is no help-it allows people to buy health insurance from only a few health insurance companies that are limited to number by State. What would help is true competition. Instead of the health insurance companies deciding their prices and being limited to how many are offered per State, all of them should be sold across the nation (like car insurance) and there should be true price competition where they compete for people to buy them. That would at least help until we can get single payer. 

Up until now they, the health insurance companies, along with the pharmaceutical companies (Big Pharma) call all the shots. They raise the prices every single year and lower the benefits every single year. But next year will be the worst for my family. We've bought health insurance for the last 2 years from the ACA. My husband works on a contract basis in the IT business and the contracts usually last 18 months. Some don't come with health insurance and the last one that did had a $5,000 deductible. So the first year it was open we bought health insurance from the ACA. We bought a good policy and it cost us a lot of money, but it was our choice. In Maryland you have a choice of Blue Cross/Blue Shield (what we've had the last two years and prefer), Aetna, United Health, Kaiser and Evergreen. 

We just found out Aetna, United Health and Blue Cross/Blue Shield will not be available next year on the ACA in Maryland. I'm sick with worry. My sister had Kaiser last year and it was horrible. I know Lucy here likes it, but here in Maryland it isn't good. Know why they're pulling out? Because they aren't making enough profit! Again it's greed. That's why DH and I had the short discussion about the possibility of moving to New Zealand. I'm just so tired of it-it just keeps getting worse and worse. But I think I'm going to stay here and fight. Voting for Jill Stein is a step in that direction. She is the only candidate for single payer health care. 

I'm sorry if I took the thread off topic. It should be criminal for pharmaceutical companies to make medication that is so urgently needed in a life and death situation like an Epi-Pen so expensive. This needs to change! 

It would be so cool to go to New Zealand!

Re: Epi pens  That is just wrong.

Ugh. I'm going to have to price them at our pharmacy with our insurance and see what the hit will be. My deductible is met this year so I usually try to get a refill as soon as I meet the deductible and then again at the very end of the year so that I have a fresh one for the coming year until I can meet my deductible again.

Damn. I paid 115 6 months ago, not looking forward to replacing mine.

I wish the mucky mucks in Washington would do something about this. Anyone remember the episode of ER when Noah Wylie made all the pharm reps take back all the goodies they gave the doctors? I don't understand why certain companies aren't allowed to be monopolies, but pharmaceuticals can gouge the hell out of people.

I know I used to get my allergy medicine from Austrailia because they discontinued it in the states, are epi pens prescription only or is it an option to buy from Canada or over seas?

Those coupons generally have a limit on the total amount. If you don't have RX coverage or you haven't met your deductible, they don't work. I want to say that the max amount is something like $125 off.  Or at least that was my experience with the discount coupon from the manufacturer last year.