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The 109 price seems like the market responding to the 30 $ diy epipen hack released 2 years ago. https://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/10/01/hackers-provid

The 109 price seems like the market responding to the 30 $ diy epipen hack released 2 years ago. https://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/10/01/hackers-provide-solution-to-overpriced-epipen-create-it-yourself-for-30-dollars/ https://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/10/01/hackers-prov...

gnicholas 8y ago
It was definitely a response to the shortage and bad publicity around epipens. Not sure it’s possible to know which was the more direct cause. It could have just been CVS going for some good publicity.