EpiPen, an easy way to inject epinephrine to someone suffering, for example, from anaphylactic shock, was booted up from about ninety dollars to over six hundred and the suits tried to pass that off as reasonable. We the People do not accept their explanation. (RT: Maker of EpiPen hit with fraud & racketeering lawsuit over price-gouging)
A group of EpiPen purchasers have hit drug maker Mylan with a class-action lawsuit, claiming the company engaged in illegal price fixing to inflate the price of its allergy treatment over a decade by 574 percent.
According to the complaint filed in Washington state on Monday, Mylan acquired the rights to market and distribute EpiPen in 2007, and increased the list price 17 times, from $90.28 to $608.62, causing some patients to resort to carrying expired EpiPens, or to use syringes to manually inject epinephrine.
Plaintiffs argued the skyrocketing list price for the EpiPen was the result of Mylan’s behind the scenes payments of rebates to pharmacy benefit managers – CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx – which handle prescription drug benefit programs of insurance plans.
- RT
Heather Bresch is another from the Martin Shkreli class of shameless parasites and this was her cop to how this happened.
Mylan CEO Heather Bresch testified before Congress last year that the “system is broken,” and that few people end up paying the full list price.
- RT
Apparently she thinks it's ok that any paid that outrageous markup.
The ideal would be if Heather Bresch and her criminal ilk were up on felony charges for racketeering, RICO, and every other filthy aspect of the Big Pharma disgrace but the lawyers are prosecuting the case to determine damages in civil court and there is no active charge against Bresch or any of her cohorts.
In that regard, the legal action falls far short of that which is necessary to curb the brutalization of Americans by these barbarians but at least it's a start.
We the People have had it with this vampiric horror endemic in Big Pharma.
A group of EpiPen purchasers have hit drug maker Mylan with a class-action lawsuit, claiming the company engaged in illegal price fixing to inflate the price of its allergy treatment over a decade by 574 percent.
According to the complaint filed in Washington state on Monday, Mylan acquired the rights to market and distribute EpiPen in 2007, and increased the list price 17 times, from $90.28 to $608.62, causing some patients to resort to carrying expired EpiPens, or to use syringes to manually inject epinephrine.
Plaintiffs argued the skyrocketing list price for the EpiPen was the result of Mylan’s behind the scenes payments of rebates to pharmacy benefit managers – CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx – which handle prescription drug benefit programs of insurance plans.
- RT
Heather Bresch is another from the Martin Shkreli class of shameless parasites and this was her cop to how this happened.
Mylan CEO Heather Bresch testified before Congress last year that the “system is broken,” and that few people end up paying the full list price.
- RT
Apparently she thinks it's ok that any paid that outrageous markup.
The ideal would be if Heather Bresch and her criminal ilk were up on felony charges for racketeering, RICO, and every other filthy aspect of the Big Pharma disgrace but the lawyers are prosecuting the case to determine damages in civil court and there is no active charge against Bresch or any of her cohorts.
In that regard, the legal action falls far short of that which is necessary to curb the brutalization of Americans by these barbarians but at least it's a start.
We the People have had it with this vampiric horror endemic in Big Pharma.
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