Because then you get to spend $300 on an Epi-Pen compared to (an already outrageous) $80 or so in the UK due to "patents"

you may say that patents are crimping the "free" market but who is really going to vote to delete those from health care ?

And even if they were removed, there are many other ways the big companies will stifle competition to keep profits high.

Sometimes something bigger than a corporation needs to step in and this IMO is one of those times/places

Isn't the Epi-Pen an example of what happens when a market isn't free? IIRC they have a monopoly provided by...the government.

It's not just patents but regulations.

Any Epi-Pen competitor has to be FDA aproved, that takes years of investment.

The government the gets to decided if the product gets to consumers.

It just recently killed a competitor so Epi-Pen can raise prices.