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Remember how an EpiPen saved your life as a child?
Posted on 1/12/17 at 8:53 am
Posted on 1/12/17 at 8:53 am
Neither do I. But the EpiPen crusade is trending on twitter right now.
I always had allergies, but this is another necessity no one ever knew they needed until they were told by activists.
CNN story on Cigna dropping coverage
#stayoutdapeanuts
I always had allergies, but this is another necessity no one ever knew they needed until they were told by activists.
CNN story on Cigna dropping coverage
#stayoutdapeanuts
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Posted on 1/12/17 at 8:55 am to PowerTool
Never even heard of this shite or peanut allergies until I was well into my 20s. You'd think kids were dropping dead from sniffing peanut particles left and right before 1995.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 8:55 am to Pax Regis
Same with autism and gluten allergies
Posted on 1/12/17 at 8:56 am to PowerTool
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Neither do I. But the EpiPen crusade is trending on twitter right now. I always had allergies, but this is another necessity no one ever knew they needed until they were told by activists.
Never had one.
I am highly allergic to bee stings. I stay the frick away from them.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 8:56 am to PowerTool
Looks like CVS has already solved this problem
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CVS Health said Thursday that it would sell a generic version of an EpiPen competitor for a lower list price in a bid to tap into a groundswell of public resentment over skyrocketing drug costs, including fresh attacks by President-elect Donald Trump.
The nation’s largest drug-store chain said Thursday that it would sell the generic version of Impax Laboratories’ Adrenaclick treatment for $109.99 per two-pack before potential discounts, or about one-third the initial $300 list price of pharmaceutical giant Mylan’s new generic EpiPen.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 8:56 am to PowerTool
You are an idiot if you don't think epipens are necessary for certain people with allergies. Just because you don't need something doesn't make it illegitimate.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 9:02 am to Damone
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Looks like CVS has already solved this problem
So had Cigna Insurance. They didn't stop covering the Epi pen. They stopped covering the non-generic version. They still cover the generic version. Guess that wasn't flashy enough for CNN's headline, though.
The CNN Headline:
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Cigna, a top health insurer, is dropping coverage of the EpiPen.
From literally the second sentence in the story:
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Cigna now says it will only cover the half-priced generic version, which launched in December.
This post was edited on 1/12/17 at 9:05 am
Posted on 1/12/17 at 9:03 am to goldennugget
I know autism is a thing but where were these kids 50 years ago? Autism didn't just spring up in the late 1990s. Did people just keep them at home or put them in institutes?
Posted on 1/12/17 at 9:06 am to PowerTool
And people lived thousands of years before being told they need to take these little things called pills. We rode dinosaurs goddammit!
Posted on 1/12/17 at 9:07 am to Pax Regis
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I know autism is a thing but where were these kids 50 years ago? Autism didn't just spring up in the late 1990s. Did people just keep them at home or put them in institutes?
Back then people just called them "weird kids".
Posted on 1/12/17 at 9:07 am to PowerTool
The recent guideline of introducing peanuts to children at an earlier age may reduce allergies going forward.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 9:09 am to PowerTool
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I always had allergies, but this is another necessity no one ever knew they needed until they were told by activists.
Or physicians or PhD's, who you know, only study this stuff. Epipen can be life saving to someone with a severe allergy. I had one as a kid because one time a bee stung me in my neck and my airway closed.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 9:10 am to CrazyCow202
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You are an idiot if you don't think epipens are necessary for certain people with allergies
I don't think he is trying to dismiss the fact that they are needed. The question is why are they needed at this time when 30-40 years ago you never heard of these allergies.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 9:11 am to PowerTool
Same with ADHD. I have no doubt that if I were born 20 years later, I would have been labeled ADHD and would have been placed on medicine post haste.
And did you know that peanut butter is no longer allowed in most schools, just because someone may or may not have a peanut allergy.
And did you know that peanut butter is no longer allowed in most schools, just because someone may or may not have a peanut allergy.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 9:15 am to boxcarbarney
As a child? Nope but it actually saved me last night after having a reaction to my allergy shot.
Appreciate ya Epi for helping out with that whole throat swelling shut incident!
Appreciate ya Epi for helping out with that whole throat swelling shut incident!
Posted on 1/12/17 at 9:17 am to CrazyCow202
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You are an idiot if you don't think epipens are necessary for certain people with allergies. Just because you don't need something doesn't make it illegitimate.
^ he gets it, while OP resides in his little world of ego believing his needs are a reflection of the world as a whole. Educate yourself OP before spouting your nonsense.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 9:17 am to Damone
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The nation’s largest drug-store chain said Thursday that it would sell the generic version of Impax Laboratories’ Adrenaclick treatment for $109.99 per two-pack before potential discounts, or about one-third the initial $300 list price of pharmaceutical giant Mylan’s new generic EpiPen.
Good on CVS. I still don't understand how Mylan justify that huge increase to roughly $700 last year. They came out and admitted it was the patent on the delivery device, too, not the cost of the drug.
I'm free market and don't buy something if I don't need it in situations where I feel like there is legit price gouging. I can understand the outrage about this price hike and hope that another company can patent a delivery device for epinephrine at a much lower cost. It's pretty ridiculous.
This post was edited on 1/12/17 at 9:18 am
Posted on 1/12/17 at 9:20 am to boxcarbarney
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Same with ADHD. I have no doubt that if I were born 20 years later, I would have been labeled ADHD and would have been placed on medicine post haste.
That is what they had leather belts for back in the day.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 9:20 am to TerryDawg03
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I can understand the outrage about this price hike and hope that another company can patent a delivery device for epinephrine at a much lower cost. It's pretty ridiculous.
Uh, there already is. The generic that Cigna is still covering.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 9:21 am to PowerTool
People died. We just didn't have social media.
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