Its pretty hard to find a more corrupt scheme then this. Its much worse then Pharma Bro. They can't even wave the "muh R&D costs" excuse.
Epipen was developed by the US Department of Defense. Its development was 100% taxpayer funded. The actual inventor of the medication and delivery system didn't get a red cent beyond his government salary for it.
Yet somehow, a Pharma company, headed by a CEO who just "HAPPENS" to be a Senators daughter, manages to get the patent for the delivery system, and then promptly jacks the price up 600% and awards herself millions of dollars in pay raises and bonuses.
Oh, and she also convinced daddy to convince his other Senators to pass a law requiring public schools, government services departments and the military to carry Epipen (and only Epipen) effectively driving her competition out of the market.
Fucking hell.
Tyler Barnes
Rare
James Williams
A woman did it?
Hunter Ward
I saw some people chatting about kidnapping her and raping her. They sounded pretty serious but probably bs.
Nathaniel Powell
Who's the (((senator)))?
Juan Garcia
Why is this any different than any of the other medicines whose prices have been jacked up 1000%?
Ethan Martinez
They did it to the corrupt Google lady, and set her on fire after. Might not be bs m8.
Wyatt Phillips
A democrat.
Henry Butler
Yep, that's about typical for late stage capitalism. The hustlers, scamsters, and bankers win, and we lose.
Josiah Price
THIS RIGHT HERE IS THE REDPILL BUT Sup Forums is to busy loving TRUMP
Christopher Morales
Typical. >Against predatory corporations >But only when they're not ours
Levi Jones
I love you, Sup Forums, but come on. >Sup Forums oozes hot boners for Shrekli >Sup Forums flips over the Epipen thing
Benjamin Morgan
Not that different tbqh, but the insult to injury was the fact that they robbed the public twice. First by having the Taxpayers pay out to develop the medicine, and then gauging those same taxpayers to pay 600 bucks for a publicly created medicine that costs 2 dollars to make.
Luke Reed
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Nathan Cox
so what you're saying is this is a fault of government not unregulated capitalism?
Charles Young
They are way more cold blooded then men. Now that they have the opportunity to do shit like this, you will see this more and more often.
Women are the type of people to make another person fall in love with them, make them promise to be together for ever, then say fuck that and take his money and kids. Now these people are in the same rooms makes decisions based on their own benefit that will decide the fate of thousand-millions of people.
James Gray
Shrekli was a troll. Sup Forums loves good trolling. He's still a cunt.
Easton Jackson
Corrupt democrats who want to pocket tax payers moneys.
Austin Rogers
Its a little of both. What this is is textbook crony capitalism, where the Government develops a product, awards it to relatives of high government officials in a fire sale, and then passes laws to insure that only that persons company can truly sell the product.
A scheme aided and abetted by other Private insurance firms, who are in cahoots with the same Pharma Company. Rather then looking out for their shareholder interests, and the interests of their clients (the insurance payees), they simply pay the bitch 600 bucks for here 2 dollar ballpoint pen, and then raise insurance premium rates.
Which the people paying those rates simply accept because they have no alternative unless they want to throw themselves on the mercy of fate.
Crony Capitalism.
Jayden Anderson
Because as OP already said, this was not some medical pharma corp that dumped Billions of dollars into creating it, this was a taxpayer funded medicine that cost the company almost nohting to obtain, and nothing to sell.
Carter Miller
democracy + capitalism = corrupt jewish tyranny
Carson Williams
Boycott. Drive the company out of business.
Christian Powell
we should pass laws stopping this
that should fix it
Angel Rodriguez
Good I hope they do. This bitch deserves to die for what she did. The news already said Epipen only takes 3$ to manufacture so they are selling it for 200x that.
Christian Russell
The Company is a monopoly. How can you boycott it if you have a Peanut Allergy? Its either Epipen or Jesus Christ. And God is not interested in the market atm.
Robert Reed
do you have to use them everyday, or is this a once a year purchase covered by insurance?
Ian Barnes
this wouldn't be a problem if the vaccines didn't cause all these GI problems
Jayden Nelson
We can't because their biggest customer is hospitals and schools and they won't play along with the plan
Bentley Fisher
there are plenty of Russian, Ukrainian, Chezch, German and other drugs that cost like 5 bucks a pack and do the same shit as epipen. They are called Loratin, Aceterin and others. Do your research, faggot.
Christopher Ross
sauce? I make no promises about not rubbing one out to the article if it's true
Jace Flores
Why can't another company make a generic?
Chase Martinez
This shit happens constantly in construction and industry. Sometimes it is very obvious and sometimes it is more convoluted but it happens very, very often.
Source: worked in middle management for an interstate construction company for 5 years.
Camden Harris
It cost $50 to make. Adrenaline isn't cheap nigger
Lucas Davis
my friend injected one for fun
he said he ran real fast and then had to go to the hospital and they told him not to do it again
Tyler Hernandez
Wow don't talk shit about the Shkreli ok mate?
Ian Mitchell
What shrekli did was no way shape or form on the level of this. He jumped up the price of a drug to hospitals and insurance companies. Most anyone that emailed him directly saying they needed a bottle was given one free of charge.
Still kind of shitty, but no where to the level of bullshit this is.
Camden Cooper
lol sucks for you allergic bitches! This is survival of the fittest after all. Don't be hypocrits Sup Forums
Jackson Gutierrez
>They are called Loratin, Aceterin and others. Do your research, faggot.
You fucking moron. The thing about epipen isn't the drug, which is pretty much just another antihistamine, it's in the delivery system, which is that it is a prepackaged, prepared injector, and not a pill like your examples are.
When you have shit genes and are dying because you are having a severe allergic reaction to goy.., I mean shellfish, or nig.. I mean peanut butter, you can't fucking swallow pills, much less wait the hour or so they take to digest and start working.
The epipen is about the delivery system and the immediate, right fucking "OH MY FUCKING GOD I CAN'T BREATHE BECAUSE MY AIRWAYS HAVE CONSTRICTED SHUT, WHY OH WHY SWEET BABY JESUS DID I DECIDE TO EAT REESE'S PEANUT BUTTER FILLED SHRIMP!!!!" now.
Jonathan Brown
>my friend injected himself with adrenaline for shits and giggles Your friend is a retard
Tyler Cook
But they all do it with all their drugs. They all jack their prices 2000% These bastards get away with gouging because they know the desperate sick and injured will pay anything to get well.
Anthony Gonzalez
The insurance Obama forces you to buy will pay for it. Maybe if it weren't illegal to avoid giving the insurance companies tons of money the cost of medical care won't keep skyrocketing
Robert Diaz
>adrenaline isn't cheap nigger It's a dollar for epinephrine the amount used in an auto injector shot. You are literally paying the rest of the money for the auto injector. Which costs roughly 50 dollars to make.
Henry Wilson
Let me guess. The sen is a Democrat.
Brody Howard
What is the solution in your mind?
Gavin Reyes
yea I told him it was dumb
he played too much left4dead2
Dylan Morgan
Why does that matter? Just don't have shitty genes and you won't have to worry about allergies.
Levi Johnson
seize the means of production
Oliver Robinson
these tablets are used by the rest of the world that does not have epipen and they do not drop dead because they do not have epipen. You are just brainwashed by epipen markering claims. Once again, do your research and stop being a flaming faggot.
Joshua Hill
Look up 'regulatory capture' to see why this doesn't work long-term.
Eli Jenkins
>Its much worse then Pharma Bro. But Shkreli did nothing wrong, is reddit leaking into Sup Forums?
Samuel Thompson
Do you even know what epinephrine is?
Jose Gray
Explain to me how you swallow a tablet when you are in the process of choking to death because your airways of closed up?
Or do they administer these tablets anally or something?
William Taylor
youre forgetting the part where she and her father "donated" money to the clinton foundation.
Jose Ward
If I wanted to talk about corruption in Spain, I wouldn't even know where to begin.
Worst thing is, crooks and corrupt in the government do get chosen by the people in their country. They literally join a political party so they can be eligible and ultimately chosen to represent their country. And once they're there, they steal from us. They rob us, the people who trusted them.
This is not some TV that a burglar stole. These are treacherous worms that cheated their whole country so that they could be rich themselves. There should be no jail penalty for such people. They should be gunned down in the street or hanged like the degenerates they are.
Jaxson Collins
My mistake, I thought it was a antihistamine injector, not an adrenaline injector. My point still stands. When you need an adrenaline shot, an allergy tablet will not do the trick.
Ryan Campbell
shkreli actually had a good reason. the company wasn't profitable.
Aiden James
>But Shkreli did nothing wrong But Hitler did nothing wrong
Luke Robinson
yeah, what's your point?
Logan Martinez
Im so glad someone else exists with this mindset. Other then myself.
David Sanchez
>yeah, what's your point? Some memes just write themselves.
Thomas Ortiz
i'm not entirely sure what point you're trying to make here
Lucas Allen
>thinking hitler did anything wrong besides losing >year of our lord 2016
i want plebbit to leave
Dominic Smith
How hard is it to just start making these in the black market?
Probably pull a tidy profit cranking em out and selling them for a fraction of what this whore is selling them for now.
Jayden Kelly
I bet Leddit imploding over this.
>OMG I hate these evil Republicans! Get them all out!
>B... But her daddy is a Democrat?? Impossible! Mah blue saviors!
Benjamin Fisher
>Probably pull a tidy profit cranking em out and selling them for a fraction of what this whore is selling them for now.
The licensing and patent barriers prohibit anyone else from selling them legally.
The thing is, with single payer and a government free to negotiate, a seller like this will gladly fill a high volume order for a substantial discount or much lower negotiated price.
William Mitchell
Governments and corporations in Europe are frightened of the populace. They don't try shit like this over there. The people burn the place down. Americans are dopey sheep.
Angel Sullivan
Shrekli was stealing money from insurance companies
Bentley Kelly
this shit got pushed on me for a mild tree nut allergy
John Martin
Don't you mean:
>"""democracy""" (that has elections that are rigged by the (((government and their corporate pals))) against the will of the people) + a mix of socialism and crony capitalism = corrupt jewish tyranny
Eli Anderson
My redpilled grandmother just told me about this earlier.
So I don't understand.....she has the patent on the delivery system....what's so special about the delivery system? Isn't just convenience? Or because people are retards? Couldn't you just have a vial of epinephrine and a hypodermic needle and administer the drug that way?
Jordan Green
Crying about the cost of an epipen while being forced to buy shitty insurance by the government. Don't blame the cheeky whore, blame insurance companies for not covering it. We all pay for it, why not make the insurance companies do their job?
Kayden Barnes
Look this is getting out of hand. Heather Bresch's bachelor degree in Poli Sci totally qualifies her to be CEO of a pharma company. Okay, her "MBA" was rescinded, but she's a top quality innovator.
Jason Perry
somewhat difficult for people who are dying from allergic reaction to measure out the dosage and fill the needle. Pen makes it very easy to administer
Evan Baker
What about the federal reserve?
Joshua Fisher
Whoa, whoa, whoa... can someone with more time and energy that me put this all in an info graphic?
Need sources on everything from the original research to the CEO being a senator's daughter, to the law that was passed.
I believe you, but if I try to tell people all of this they'll pull out the roll of tinfoil for me.
Logan Moore
I can understand being angry with pharma, and they do have their share of blame. But if you have a fatal allergy it isn't pharma's fault, it is your mother who is pruciple to blame for having a defective womb
Jonathan Anderson
Have adrenaline, atropine in vials in fridge. Syringes are cheap. So is a used pdr.
Christopher Lee
>Or do they administer these tablets anally or something? fucking kek
Easton Foster
>implying our money exists I just wish Darwinism could take its natural course. Litteraly half the people I've talked to today wouldn't be alive because of artificially created safe spaces. The obese, retarded, 1 of 100 congenital diseases that we should kill people for being born with. I don't even want to talk about the welfare state...
Isaac Cook
>well why cant i just carry a syringe loaded with adrenaline/epinephrine and use that?
SILLY GOY THATS DANGEROUS
WE HERE AT THE FDA WANT TO PROTECT YOU, ITS WHY WEVE BLOCKED SO MANY OTHER VERSIONS OF THIS PRODUCT COMING OUT AND CANT LET YOU USE A SMALL ENDED SYRINGE, WE CARE FOR YOUR SAFETY NOW FORK UP $600
David Wood
wait are you telling me corruption is real
Ryder Gray
or just allow medicines to be bought across borders to help compeitition which is what is the issue here, youve got an isolated country where there is no competition and theyve decided to jack up the price. Allow products to flow across borders and you will get the reduction you want. Insurance companies dont even compete across state lines and then people wonder why it costs so much. Stop isolating them and allow them to compete
Nolan Ross
>lobby government >get it passed that schools need to stock your shit or they get fucked >you can jack up the prices and they still need to buy it
yeah id say they had a hand in it. that and no competition
Anthony Adams
So, uh, I don't get it.
Why do people complain on social media instead of just finding out where she lives, following her, and then jumping her?
Most people who are rich do not live in dangerous environments, and are not prepared to be attacked.
Hudson Gutierrez
>tfw have to have epipens I SAY WE INJECT THIS JEW WITH A COUPLE HUNDRED OF THEM
Thomas Sanchez
fda
Joshua Morgan
>Own sole patent for popular delivery method of common medicine >Free market allows me to do what I want with the pricing of that product >Raise it insanely high >People tell me I can't do that Economics is amoral. Get over it. Somebody else will come by and release a just-as-effective method and make a killing selling it for dirt cheap, just like with that medication shkreli raised.
Andrew King
yeah the only way you'll fix things is to give people who already have power LESS accountability while LOWERING the wages of the common folk 10/10
Jason Mitchell
This is not capitalism This is socialism
Caleb Long
Introducing EpiPencil, selling for $15 Oh wait, the government is protecting this monopoly by gouging out all the competition. Socialism in action.
>ywn make shitpost-tier knockoff brands to keep the spirit of capitalism alive
Jack Flores
Sup Forums = social media the summer never ends
Brody Lee
>>>/reddit/
Zachary Jones
>blaming the company and not the clearly corrupt government
I'll never understand liberalism. You realize this would have never happened without the complicit consent of the government?
Luke Collins
The problem isn't raising pricing.
The problem is securing a government-mandated monopoly through lobbying and back room dealing.
Blake Walker
Patent law has been bastardized in the US to serve the cronycaps for decades. This is why patent trolling is so profitable. I am with the anarchocaps here. I say get rid of patents altogether. The profit motive to be the first mover on a product will still exist.
Christian Baker
>get rid of patents altogether
it takes 15yrs and about 2 billion dollars to get a drug out on the market. who the fuck is going do invest the time and money into this if youre waiting outside to copy it and sell it?
Chase Gray
no that's economic conservatism. You can actually thank socialized health care for the legitimately exorbitant medical prices though, meet your deductible and that 250 usd 2 pack of epipen will be no co pay. they expire in a year though!
Isaiah Wood
>Eat the rich! >Down with the bourgoise!
Maybe I'll jump YOU, fucking shitbag.
William Morris
Sup Forums = antisocial media
Matthew Rogers
As someone who has to carry ome around, My insurance pays in full for it. Not a cent coming out of my wallet (directly).