automatic injector of epinephrine.ndependence for life-threatening -- epinephrine is for life threatening allergic reactions. they have gone from $200 for two $600 for two of them in a. of about six years. we have been caring epi-pens for decades. we used to spend a couple hundred dollars to outfit the entire department with every pens and all of a sudden we are spending $350 a piece. the county medical control of authority designed a special change all we could of robert -- train all of our basic emts and first responders on how to give epinephrine interim muscular lee as opposed to the epipen. others want to create their own studies in their own time. >> somebody that does not have not going toey are have the ability to have one of somebody needed that product. notome decided they will carry it. the risk is not worthy reward. >> if i did not have the and epipen i would've been had. >> in 20 16, megan lee a student at royal oak high school experienced her first severe reaction at her junior prom. it had life-threateni

one of these companies is my land, the maker of the epipen. >> and automatic injector of epinephrine. >> life-threatening allergic responses. >> epinephrine is for life threatening allergic reactions. >> they can stop it pretty quickly. >> they have gone from $200 for a two pack to $600 for a two pack. in about six years. >> we have been carrying at the pens for decades. we used to spend a couple hundred dollars to outfit the entire department with epipen's and all of a sudden we are spending $350 a piece. the county medical control of authority designed a special study where we could train all of our basic emt's and first responders on how to give epinephrine the old-fashioned way. we injected as an intramuscular injection. other counties in the state want to model our system and create their own studies in their own counties to save significant costs. >> somebody that does not have the money will use an old one, they will not have the ability to have one if someone needs that products. >> some decide they will not carry it, that the risk is not worth the award. >> if i do not have t

have to talk to to catch ng enough >> roughly four people today will die if they don't get the epinephrine. of you have a drug that has been on the market for 100 years, cost roughly one dollar, but the price of this has gone from $99 for one to more than $600 for two in a very short amount of time. do you ever feel guilty or pains of guilt making such a large sum of money? >> i have to take a prescription to the mother and watch her cry and call them members in order to get money to pay for the medication. >> enough is enough. the greed of the pharmaceutical industry is killing americans in making them much sicker than they otherwise would have been. >> in 2016,, cynical companies attack for price gouging current one of these is epipen.he maker of the >> epipen is for allergicatening reactions for it they have gone from $200 for a two pack two $600 42 pack in the. of about 5-6 years. >> we have been buying epipen for decades. we used to spend a couple hundred dollars to outfit the whole department and now we are spending $300 apiece so every year we are spending thousands upon thousands j

other epinephrine pence were rejected. competitors want to come out with a similar product to invest money for this huge amount of uncertainty whether they will pass inspection and whether they will potentially infringe on my lan's patent so there's a double whammy of overcome the patent system and i would call that cronyism, government decided to winds and loses in an industry. john: and it's an invitation for sleazy dealings for the company instead of focusing on making a superior product to focus on making friends in washington and we will never know what happened with the epi-pen and why the competitors were pushed out but it's interesting that the ceo of the company who paid herself $19 million is the daughter of a u.s. senator. >> it is interesting that this is a moment where you have both trump people and sanders people starting to come together on these arrangements and there's a lot of anti-f. d a. sentiment not there on the left and right. john: nobody wants to get rid of the fda. they are just saying what more c

. >>> and the fda is issuing an alert, a consumer alert affects epinephrine. 13 lots of epipen and epipen are being voluntarily recalled by the manufacturer. this following two reports that the pens failed to activate. epipens are used to treat life-threatening allergic reaction thes. the lots were distributed between december 2015 and july 2016. >>> tiger woods will not be playing in this year's masters tournament later this month. woods saying he is not ready after being idled by back spasms, the third masters in four years he will miss. he says he does plan to return to the pga tourate later this year but set no timetable for when. he won the masters 20 years ago at the age of 21, the youngest to ever don the green jacket. easy to say, right? >>> finally, who says looking for directions can't be fun? now, google maps has turned back the clock on their latest april fools' day prank changing the usual maps layout to a game of miss pac-man. >> that's awesome. >> pac maps to play a quick game around the neighborhood. best of all there is no traffic. but being a man i never ask for directio

. >> up to four people a day will die if they do not get the proper dosage of epinephrine. >> i have a lot of guys, one guy carried it with him all the time. roughly one dollar. but the price of this has gone from roughly $99 for one to more than $600 for two. in a very short amount of time. >> do you ever feel guilty or have feelings of guilt making such a large sum of money? >> had to sit there and take a prescription to the counter for a mother whose child has suffered from anaphylactic shock and watch her have to call family members to get the money to pay for this medication. >> more people a day will die. >> $600. >> do you ever feel guilty? >> the time has come to say loudly and clearly that enough is enough. the greed of the pharmaceutical industry is killing americans and making many of the much sicker than they otherwise would have been. >> in 2016, pharmaceutical companies were undercut -- under attack for supposedly price gouging, one of them is mylan, the marriage -- maker of epipen. >> it is an automatic injector. >> epipen is for life-threatening allergic responses. >>