Or until congress allows Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies on price like private insurance companies and even the Veterans Administration can and do. Until that happens big Pharma can do pretty much what they please because Medicare is such a huge provider the non-negotiated prices establish the price everything else is negotiated from.
In Canada that's pretty much how the provinces deal with it. There is a movement afoot which is seeking to expand such on a national basis, which would be even better ... certainly for the consumer, not to mention the taxpayer who foots the bills under our system.
As I noted earlier, because of the above, EpiPens are way cheaper here; as of November 1, the costs for EpiPen and a generic Allerject (in SK) are (+ dispensing fee):
EPIPEN JR 0.15MG/DOSE INJECTION SOLUTION $88.56
EPIPEN 0.3MG/DOSE INJECTION SOLUTION $88.56
ALLERJECT 0.15MG/DOSE INJECTION SOLUTION $82.70
ALLERJECT 0.3MG/DOSE INJECTION SOLUTION $82.70
