Patients everywhere have been experiencing sticker shock with the recent  price increase of the EpiPen and now with news that a generic cheaper alternative will finally be available at your local pharmacy it has people talking even more.

But they’re not convinced this is a great deal either.

Mylan, the company who makes the prescription that can help stop life-threatening allergic reactions announced Monday it will make available a generic version of the EpiPen in the coming weeks. It will cost half the price of the name brand, so about $300 for a two pack of EpiPens.

Kelly Hughes’s eight year old daughter Audrey has a peanut allergy so EpiPens are a necessary part of her life.

“It makes me livid that this company has taken advantage of lots of kids and families who can’t afford $600 and plus for an EpiPen,” said Hughes. “Half the price is still $300 and who can afford that?”

Some pharmacists argue that the cheaper generic drug really isn’t a price adjustment at all for patients. Currently those who pay the full price of $600 are often able to use a co-pay card to bring that cost down to $300. But pharmacists say co-pay cards cannot be used to purchase generic drugs, so essentially patients will still be paying $300.

Doctor Roger Friedman, an allergist with Ohio ENT & Allergy Physicians  says even though patients will still be paying a lot, EpiPens and the generic version of them is still the way to go.

“For many years even before the EpiPen we had an Epi syringe that we did, in that you have epinephrine that you can draw up into a syringe and then inject it and it works pretty darn well. The problem is in a crisis situation that’s almost impossible for a parent or a child to be able to successfully do that,” said Friedman.

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