Hillary Clinton Announces Aggressive New Plan to Respond to Unjustified Price Hikes for EpiPens

[workinclasszero]

Hillary Clinton Announces Aggressive New Plan to Respond to Unjustified Price Hikes for EpiPens and other Long-Available Treatments

Today Hillary Clinton is announcing a new plan to protect Americans from unjustified price hikes of long-available prescription drugs with limited competition, like EpiPens and pyrimethamine, the drug for a disease related to AIDS that Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of by more than 5,000%.

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/updates/2016/09/02/hillary-clinton-announces-aggressive-new-plan-to-respond-to-unjustified-price-hikes-for-epipens-and-other-long-available-treatments/

[AllyCat]

1. Yes! More like this!

We need this kind of change for our nation and much, much more! Go Clinton!

[Iliyah]

2. HRC trying to find solutions to the USA people's everyday life

the other, well, promotes hate, fear . . . and no viable solutions but chaos.

She's got this!

[NCTraveler]

3. Solutions for problems. K&R nt.

[tclambert]

7. You're not supposed to solve them! You're supposed to blame them on the other guys, rouse fear,

and make sure they keep going. If you do propose a solution, it must be a non-solution, like building a fence or a wall and claiming no one could ever figure out how to climb over it. Then blame the other side for your party's abject failures.

[pipoman]

4. It just isn't enough.

Insurance companies and to a greater degree CMS tells doctors and hospitals how much they can charge for virtually every single procedure possible on a human. Time for the same control over drug companies..

[homegirl]

8. For eight months

my doctor has been trying to get my pharmaceutical supplier to provide the medication he prescribes for me. So, who decides, my doctor or the supplier. Hillary should take on the task of lifting the ban on ordering prescription medications from Canada.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Over in Trumpland

they're too busy choking on their gold-crusted pbj's to bother caring.

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. Want to stop this sort of thing? Bring in single-payer healthcare

pharmaceutical companies charge US consumers exorbitant prices for drugs because they know an insurance company is picking up a large part of the tab in a lot of cases.

[homegirl]

9. How

right you are!

[CajunBlazer]

10. You are not well informed

Insurance company have "formularies" which list the drugs they will cover and which they will not, and at what costs to patients. If a pharmaceutical company charges exorbitant cost for a drug, insurance won't cover them or will pass on some of the costs on to the patients. Both of those tactics cause consumers to chose lesser costs alternatives if they are available.

By the way, a single payer system is not necessarily the answer. Medicare is a single payer system, but federal law prevents Medicare from negotiating prices with the drug companies.

[Orsino]

15. As we move toward single-payer and away ftom corpIratism in health care...

...the ability of CEOs to buy legislation like the evil goddamned law you mentioned will fall way.

Any system will fail to halt price increases if there's legislation to prevent their halting price increases. That's not an indictment of single-payer.

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. I live in a country (the UK) with a single-payer healthcare system (the NHS)

and prescription drug prices for private patients are much much lower (EpiPen? £45 for one from an online pharmacy), and NHS prescriptions are free in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (but not England).

[Ligyron]

17. Amen!

[aggiesal]

11. This should go further ...

The drug Epinephrine was developed back in the late 1800's, and the dosage
in the epipen costs Mylan less than a dollar.

Mylan claims that the price was raised because the injection method is proprietary,
so they need to recoup their R&D costs.
But, injection method was developed by the military in the 1970's so that belongs
to us, the taxpayers.

https://timeline.com/epipen-technology-drug-industry-b28d19036dee#.9vjygp8em

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-history-of-the-epipen-and-epinephrine-2016-8

I believe that when the government invents/develops anything, it could/should license
OUR product to a third party like Mylan as a NON-PROFIT, period!

[bigwillq]

12. Good start

[workinclasszero]

13. Exactly

And far better than the republican solution..medicine for the rich only.

[wallyworld2]

14. how

did she get Mexico to pay for it!

[oasis]

16. Hillary's policies will benefit all Americans. C'mon America

"What do you have to lose?"