Hillary's outrage over Epipen $$, what she's not telling you

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Hillary's outrage over Epipen $$, what she's not telling you

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For the past week, a pharmaceutical company called Mylan has been making headlines as the latest example of corporate greed gone amok. It’s a similar story to that of Martin Shkreli, who hiked the price of the AIDS drug Daraprim 5,556 percent, from $13.5 to $750 per tablet. In the case of Mylan, they’ve been under fire for raising the price of the EpiPen, on which they have a monopoly, 400% over a relatively short period of time. Since acquiring the drug from Merck in 2008, Mylan has increased its price from $100 to as much as $600.

Hillary Clinton blasted the price hike as outrageous — and just the latest example of a company taking advantage of its consumers. She added, “It’s wrong when drug companies put profits ahead of patients, raising prices without justifying the value behind them.”

Well, conveniently, Hillary left out this little nugget of information about the offending company in this case.
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