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A comment on How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challenge EpiPen Prices. Parent comment

Re:How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challe... by silencio on Thursday August 25, 2016 @11:05PM (#12364027)
Actually, funny you bring up a $50 price point. The only other autoinjector still on the US market is Adrenaclick, which is ~$140 for a 2 pack.

I genuinely have no idea why people consider there to be no viable alternative to the EpiPen - the only guesses I might have are that the third autoinjector (Auvi-Q) being pulled off the market being more "newsworthy", that insurances don't cover it (but $140 is a pre-insurance cash price!), and third but probably most important: people aren't getting prescriptions for something they're not used to using. I have never gotten a prescription for anything but "EpiPen" specifically.

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Re:How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challe... by maxerickson on Friday August 26, 2016 @01:37AM (#12364427)
It's the generic Adrenaclick that is $140. If I have it right, there's 2 companies making the generic.
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