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The lead here is that Mallinckrodt has to pay 100 million to the FTC for forming a monopoly/racket.
I now have 100 million reasons not to prescribe this pig product. This company was Shkreli before Shkreli. They took a pig sweetmeat, that used to be a cheap and boring treatment for infantile spasms, ramped up the price, found a loophole to exploit its use for MS relapses. They found doctors to prescribe it - which I think is borderline unethical for MS given that the company has never bothered to demonstrate safety/efficacy against steroids. And then mostly got very good at getting prior authorization to game the insurance system.
I also blame the insurance system for not stepping up on this. I have to fight to get someone on Gilenya or Tysabri, which actually offers real benefit. But then they allow this nonsense. Disgusting. And what's really repulsive is that 100 million is a drop in the bucket.
I now have 100 million reasons not to prescribe this pig product. This company was Shkreli before Shkreli. They took a pig sweetmeat, that used to be a cheap and boring treatment for infantile spasms, ramped up the price, found a loophole to exploit its use for MS relapses. They found doctors to prescribe it - which I think is borderline unethical for MS given that the company has never bothered to demonstrate safety/efficacy against steroids. And then mostly got very good at getting prior authorization to game the insurance system.
I also blame the insurance system for not stepping up on this. I have to fight to get someone on Gilenya or Tysabri, which actually offers real benefit. But then they allow this nonsense. Disgusting. And what's really repulsive is that 100 million is a drop in the bucket.