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The $612 Pharmacy Receipt Forced Parents to Choose a Child's Life
A $612 pharmacy receipt forces a parent to decide whether to buy epinephrine that could save their child's life - how did drug pricing expose them?
The $612 Pharmacy Receipt Forced Parents to Choose a Child's Life
In this episode, we look into a summer in 2015 when parents across the United States faced the same $612 receipt for a two-pack of epinephrine injectors. The episode traces how laws, regulatory delays, and industry strategies widened the gap between manufacturing cost and retail price, and asks who benefited from that system.
Person: Peter Bach
Date: Summer 2015
Drug: Epinephrine…
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