Medical Engineers Have Built An EpiPen Replacement That Costs $16 A Shot - Sensationalist Headlines

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/medical-engineers-have-built-a-epipen-replacement-that-costs-16-a-shot/ A team of South African biomedical engineers have built a cheap replacement for the EpiPen that could revolutionize the emergency treatment of anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction that can be triggered by food or insect bites. Called the ZiBiPen, it delivers a shot of adrenaline in the form of a replaceable, $16 cartridge. “The cost of the pen is $80 and we are testing to make it last up to five years,” said Gokul Nair, who helped develop it alongside fellow University of Cape Town’s Medical Devices Lab alumnus Giancarlo Beukes. That is a fraction of the cost of the dominant device on the market, the EpiPen, which sells for $600 in a pack of 2; lasts only up to 18 months; and can only be used once.

Watch this get banned in the majority of western countries due to patent disputes

Its made in South Africa so it can't be imported because of "safety" most likely. Its the same excuse they use for Canadian generics.

There's generic version of epipen for 10$ already, but what sucks between that and epipen is that epipen gives detailed emergency instructions that area read to you for 3rd party application. Plus epipen's system is a lot easier to use since there's a lot more safety features to prevent shit like breaking needles inside the leg or what have you.

Soon to be sold to you for the low price of $300

You know how we read history books and say "How is it that women didn't have the right to vote until 1920???" in like 100 years hopefully we'll look back and say "how is it that Americans didn't have the right to healthcare until 20XX???"

Because while other first world countries' governments are more or less for the people, our government is for making money off the people. Ours exists purely to get money out of the every day citizens and into as many pockets as possible. Everything is catered to and for businesses, especially the large ones. That means Banks, Insurance companies, Telecommunication companies. We're basically at war with the government but no one either realizes it, or they can't do anything about it because we're mostly all 1 paycheck away from financial disaster

It's a goddamn crime honestly. My ol lady hasn't been able to gain weight even though she tries. The most weight she can get to is weighing 113.5 lbs at most, the lowest being 110 lbs, and I've seen her lose those weight way to quickly. We've finally met her 12000 dollar deductible, so now we can finally go to the doctors to get a camera stuck down her throat to see what's wrong. It makes me mad. To see my beautiful fiancee, and the future mother of my children being sick, it makes my blood boil, and then I feel defeated because all I can do is work my fingers to the bone to try to get her the help she needs. Sorry to get off subject, America's medical area and how we charge arms and legs to help people, pisses me right the fuck off.

To be honest the sad thing is that in the us it would cost thousands to buy even if we did have it

I disagree. I think most people are against Universal Healthcare because the corporations have told them universal healthcare is bad. The government is just giving the people what they asked for. The people are the problem.

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Yeah, this shit is absolutely insane and it makes my mind reel whenever I hear people trying to justify it. I had an absolutely horrifying panic attack a year ago coupled with vomiting and pain in my lower right abdomen, so naturally I freaked out that my appendix had burst or something (I had been having mild pains in that area for a while anyway so it was on my mind at the time as well), so I went straight to the ER. Turns out the vomiting was just a side effect of the panic attack and I was constipated, so that contributed to abdominal pains. So, being the industry that it is, I was sent home with a bill of over $4,000, for a CT scan, an IV drip and drug screening, not including the $208 required to read the CT scan, which makes very little sense to me. Luckily they ended up dropping the whole thing because at the time I couldn't begin to pay that. It should be illegal to monetize people's well being. I hope your fiancee gets the care she deserves, man.

Epipen was never a manufacturing issue, the army probably buys hundreds of thousands of them for a few dollars a piece, the issue is one of no price controls for medications, something every other country in the world has realized rightly, is needed to maintain an egalitarian system, even if you fail to provide such a system.

Fuck... I really hate my country sometimes, but I'm eternally thankful that the UK pioneered Universal Healthcare just after WWII. I'd honestly be either dead or bankrupt otherwise, and that's not an exaggeration.

People have used the waiting (rationing) as an excuse for why we shouldn't have universal healthcare, even though we ration our healthcare through coverage

The whole "long wait times" thing people try to use to discredit universal healthcare is hilarious, because I have to wait months for some appointments in the USA. Before I lucked out and got a job with good insurance I would pay $200 for just a consultation ("oh yeah by what you describe your symptoms as you have ____ which you could have looked up on webMD come back in a month for the test to confirm if you actually have it"), and then I need to wait a month AGAIN for the actual study/surgery. I can't see universal healthcare being any longer than what we have now and honestly I'd rather not drop $2-4k on an ambulance ride and some aspirin.

a general strike until we get universal healthcare

so, a general strike until we all starve to death

Or maybe someone should organize a march or something.

the rich taste sweetest when they're the first thing you've eaten in a while