Epipens Sky Price Case Study

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EpiPens Sky Prices Imagine a parent who has a child that has severe allergies going to a pharmacy to get allergy medicine. The medicine costs about sixty dollars but it’s for their child so sixty dollars is nothing. But as the years go by and exactly ten years later the parent goes to buy the same medicine but sees that it costs around seven hundred dollars just for two packs of this medicine. This is what happened to the consumers that were buying EpiPens from Mylan. Why was there such an increase in the price? People have been saying that Mylan is mean and wants to take money from families, but what are the real reasons? The first reason is because insurers and employers have negotiated with Mylan over EpiPen prices, which means that