Epi-Pen Pricing: It’s the System, Stupid

Pramod John

LinkedIn, 08/29/2016

Drug manufacturers can’t catch a break, but are they the real culprit?

Sure, we could shake our finger at Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan, but didn’t we just do this to Martin Shkreli from Turing Pharmaceuticals and Michael Pearson from Valeant? The key question isn’t who’s the offender du jour? Instead, it’s why do these pricing ‘scandals’ keep happening, and is our best offensive strategy public shaming?