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Joe Manchin’s Daughter Helped Shutter a Union Drug Plant, theintercept.com, Daniel Boguslaw Also taken from “Can You Patent the Sun?” – Angry Bear, What About Drug Costs? The story of EpiPen is a good example of out-of-control pricing. In 2007 Mylan acquired the EpiPen brand from Pfizer. The acquisition did not include the Pfizer subsidiary manufacturing EpiPen. However, Mylan controlled the distribution. There is no story about out of...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]On The Increasingly Unfortunate Economics Of Peanut Allergies…: Things get awkward when companies decide to maximize profit, if for no other reason than it highlights where policy makers have procrastinated on regulation in hopes that self-interested oganizations would just behave.