How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challenge EpiPen Prices

Re:How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challe... by WalterBright on Friday August 26, 2016 @05:06AM (#12365085)

> pushing more medical costs to patients will actually create the pressure needed to reduce medical costs?

The laws of supply and demand get regularly rediscovered <g>. A discouragingly large amount of government policy ignores supply&demand.

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Re:How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challe... by TheBeardKing on Friday August 26, 2016 @08:02AM (#12365586)

It's hard to follow supply and demand when we (US) subsidize the rest of the world's R&D because they limit legal drug prices.

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Re:How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challe... by lostlogin on Friday August 26, 2016 @05:36AM (#12365180)

Isnt this the free market being discussed rather than government? And isn't this a great example of "supply and demand" being an over simplification of the factors that can influence price?

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Re:How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challe... by WalterBright on Friday August 26, 2016 @05:53PM (#12369574)

As discussed elsewhere in this thread, FDA regulations make it very difficult for competitors in this space.

> over simplification

I suppose it's like "gravity" being an oversimplification of the bending of light around stars.

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