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Re:Mylan to Settle EpiPen Overpricing Case for $465M by dmix on Saturday October 08, 2016 @12:00AM (#12665603)
Another year another major pharmaceutical settlement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical...

It's like a game of musical chairs for who gets to pay the government a billion dollars this year.

This Epipen case sounds far less bad then most on that list. Especially if we're going to talk about punishment. As most of the other settlements on the list were for mislabeled drugs. People were spending money and wasted weeks/months of their supposed treatment on drugs that didn't help them.

I personally experienced the effects of this due to a bad doctor, not mislabeling, and I was seriously sick for a much longer period of time then I should have been. Fortunately I found a specialist who knew what he was talking about and told me to take one drug which cost $100/m instead of three others costing me $900/m (I didn't have drug benefits insurance at the time). For me the wasted time on a treatment that didn't work was far more harmful to me than the added cost.

Re:Mylan to Settle EpiPen Overpricing Case for $465M by alkjshdkfjasdf on Saturday October 08, 2016 @04:17AM (#12666141)
I am sorry for your experience with diagnosis in regards to your health, but your last paragraph or two is completely unrelated to anything other than "diagnosis is hard / my physician wasn't able to help".

In other words, it is completely unrelated, and your overcharging on drugs was awful and again, completely unrelated to this core issue.

Re:Mylan to Settle EpiPen Overpricing Case for $465M by dmix on Sunday October 09, 2016 @11:40AM (#12671670)
I was simply relating to the severity of mislabeling. The last comment I made about the price was merely to support the need for greater punishment of mislabeling (added cost is a side effect of mislabeling). Not to draw comparison to my added expenditure and EpiPen over-pricing.

I wasn't over-charged for drugs, I was over-prescribed by the doctor - and this shows the danger of being given drugs you're not supposed to have (both wasted money and loss of treatment time). Which was the point of the last two paragraphs in support of my claim that mislabeling is worse than pharma companies over-charging insurance companies (I believe non-insurance holders were offered lower prices by Mylan?). But I could see how my choice of phrasing might have been misinterpreted.

Re:Mylan to Settle EpiPen Overpricing Case for $465M by forgetsusername on Saturday October 08, 2016 @05:14AM (#12666248)
Doctors and their diagnoses aren't infallible. Why assume Doctor A is sinister, as opposed to unaware or, worst case, incompetent?
Re:Mylan to Settle EpiPen Overpricing Case for $465M by dmix on Sunday October 09, 2016 @11:59AM (#12671748)
An incompetent doctor with a script pad is dangerous. Just like an incompetent police officer with a firearm. They should be held to a high level of accountability and I'm not willing to easily dismiss such action as human fallibility as he easily could have deferred his diagnosis to the specialist who was in the same building. It was months before I ended up seeing the specialist who corrected the prescription because I wrongly trusted the original doctors judgement. He made no indication he was just making a guess at what was wrong with me and that I should speak to a specialist as soon as possible.

If they aren't competent enough for their high-stakes job they should be doing something else where their fallibility isn't harming peoples lives. And the inaccurate over-prescribing and was only part of my negative experience with the physician in question.