Mylan has raised the price of EpiPen in semiannual 10% to 15% tranches so that a two-pack that cost about $100 in 2008 now runs $500 or more after insurance discounts and coupons. Outrage seems to be peaking now because more families are exposed to drug prices directly though insurance deductibles and co-pays, plus the political class has discovered another easy corporate villain.
Still, the steady Mylan rise is hard to read as anything other than inevitable when a billion-dollar market is cornered by one supplier. Epinephrine is a basic and super-cheap medicine, and the EpiPen auto-injector device has been around since the 1970s.
Thus EpiPen should be open to generic competition, which cuts prices dramatically for most other old medicines. Competitors have been trying for years to challenge Mylan’s EpiPen franchise with low-cost alternatives—only to become entangled in the Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory afflatus.
Approving a generic copy that is biologically equivalent to a branded drug is simple, but the FDA maintains no clear and consistent principles for generic drug-delivery devices like auto injectors or asthma inhalers. How does a company prove that a generic device is the same as the original product if there are notional differences, even if the differences don’t matter to the end result? In this case, that means immediately injecting a kid in anaphylactic shock with epinephrine—which is not complex medical engineering.
But no company has been able to do so to the FDA’s satisfaction. Last year Sanofi withdrew an EpiPen rival called Auvi-Q that was introduced in 2013, after merely 26 cases in which the device malfunctioned and delivered an inaccurate dose. Though the recall was voluntary and the FDA process is not transparent, such extraordinary actions are never done without agency involvement. This suggests a regulatory motive other than patient safety.
Kinda crazy story...no clue how this minor detail isn't being talked about. The CEO of Mylan is Heather Bresch, who happens to be the daughter of WV Democratic Senator Joe Manchin (wonder who helps sponsor some of the govt requirements for the Epipen use...). She also managed to up her own salary something like 900% while cranking up the price.
"Shkreli, who is currently awaiting trial for securities fraud, said later that “all you people who don't like trump are jealous, stupid and poor! don't make me laugh!” "
I'm sorry...I missed the part where Shkreli is related to a Republican in office or where Shkreli and his company donated large sums of money to Trump's "charity" and lobbied him soon after for favors while he was in a public office.
Keep trying and keep lapping up Clinton like you do...
I thought you guys like the freedom to lobby in our great nation? Are you asking for greater regulation now?
So all lobbyist have equal access kinda like all capitalism is the same. Cute hiding behind the regulation/deregulation thing. You'd be scream like a little bitch if the R's were in control. What you have been advocating is cronyism and yeah its wrong when the R's are in power but I guess merit, efficiency, etc are old antiquated ideas too. Whats also funny is you think you are a member of the lefty elite, that 1%. Yet you live on a message board when you are not crashing floatplanes. What happens when you are pink slipped from that DBA job and replaced by a kid from Bangalore for half the wages
The kid from Bangalore has been trying to get a job like mine for the last 15 years. Doesn't matter where the kid is from actually, there is a big difference between writing some SQL and designing a highly optimized system that can handle billions of transactions a day... a kid from anywhere can't do that, and MSFT, Expedia, Amazon, Verizon, Google, Ebay, etc will never trust them with that. But keep living your hate filled fantasy while you are running that MySQL database under your desk....
...and keep supporting that loser Trump.
Wow, My Gawd you are THE SQL geek God as stated on a message board. I have no problem with MySql, PostgreSQL, Oracle, whatever, who cares a tool is a tool as long as it works for the job; and someone in your lofty irreplaceable job should know that. I think it highly likely you are not what you claim.
Oh and find one post where I have supported Trump. So do you optimize DB's with nothing but assumptions ?
SELECT * FROM HardcoreHusky.Members WHERE Name = 'PurpleJ' AND IQ > 80
===== Execute
===== No Rows Returned
You could join them (they aren't really separate tables) using subqueries like this to return their respective rows as separate virtual tables:
SELECT * FROM ( SELECT * FROM HardcoreHusky.Members WHERE Name = 'PurpleJ' ) as P FULL OUTER JOIN ( SELECT * FROM HardcoreHusky.Members WHERE Name = 'Splooge' ) as S
But unless they share a common key or attribute on which to join, you will just get a cartesian product -- AND NOBODY wants a cartesian product of PurpleJ or Splooge, so it would be best to use a union to just show their rows as follows:
INSERT INTO HardcoreHusky.Junk
SELECT * FROM HardcoreHusky.Members WHERE Name = 'PurpleJ' UNION ALL SELECT * FROM HardcoreHusky.Members WHERE Name = 'Splooge'
Leave off the INSERT clause if you actually want to see the rows instead of putting them where they belong.
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Anaphylactic Political Shock
Sorry, Hillary. The feds are to blame for Mylan’s EpiPen monopoly.
I wanna come back here as @TrancheDawg91
Oh and find one post where I have supported Trump. So do you optimize DB's with nothing but assumptions ?