peter maybarduk and ashley alteman, welcome to democracy now! explain how the epipen works. this is a self injector, right? >> salute leave. i have an out eight-year-old daughter. we found out about her ate-threatening egg allergy about nine months old and were introduced to the epipen roughly 2008. we were shown how it works. the ease and the simplicity of the epipen. amy: wherere do you inject it? >> into the thigh. when your child goes into anaphylaxis, you inject it right of your child. amy: what is your concern and what are you do manning and is open letter? at -- i'velooked looked at a lot of things. i went to pick up my daughter's prescription and her prescription used to cost about $25. i have commercial insurance. they used to cost about $25 for a prescription. that includes two epipens. that prescription now costs me about $300. mind you, i also had about $1000 a month in commercial insurance. and all of a sudden, this drug is absolutely skyrocketed. i went to pick it up in a completely blindsided me. in my open letter, i was honest. i said at the time, i did not h