Now it’s hard to find hard numbers on how much Epipen costs to make, but I can tell you that epinephrine was first synthesized in 1906, and I can buy a gram of it from Sigma-Aldrich for about $20 bucks, making the 0.3 milligrams in an Epipen dose cost about six tenths of a penny.

But despite the public shaming, we haven’t seen an about-face on Epipen prices from Mylan.

So you’re a pharmaceutical company facing considerable public outrage about your pricing of a life-saving medication. You have a couple of options.

First, you could reduce the price of the drug. But that might cut into profit margins.

Second, you could get someone else to pay for the drug.

In the great American medical tradition of transferring costs to other people, Mylan is making a play to get insurance companies to pay for the entirety of the epi-pen. Without copays.

First, I wanted to look at the out-of-pocket cost for Epipen. As of this video, it’s about $600.