U.S. lawmakers demand investigation of $100 price hike of lifesaving EpiPens

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It's also a regulatory issue because the FDA has consistently refused to approve any competing products, thereby guaranteeing Mylan a monopoly.  The price increases are simply an illustration of monopoly pricing, and a poster child for why monopoly busting and anti-trust laws do have a basic, useful, purpose.

Sure... although this is a government protected monopoly, so all that is needed is to simply remove the government protections in this case.

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Did anyone really believe that ObamaCare mandates and the medical device tax were not going to raise costs for consumers? Do you see all of those trial lawyer advertisements on TV - the ones about Mesolthelioma (2,500 new cases a year; 15,000 advertisements a day) and did you or a love one taken any of these drugs? Call now!!! 1-800-BAD DRUG!!!!? Tort lawyers and their Democrat politician patronage recipients are in the process of destroying the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, while enriching themselves in the process.