Question

Consumers complained after EpiPen maker Mylan "hiked the price of the emergency auto-injector by $100 in recent months for no obvious reason. . . . The price has increased 450 percent since 2004, when a dose cost $100 in today’s dollars, to its current price of more than $600. . . . The medication itself isn’t expensive. Analysts calculate that the dosage contained in a single pen is worth about $1."
After reading the scenario, respond to A, B, and C below:


(A) Describe a power Congress could use to address the comments outlined in the scenario.

(B) In the context of the scenario, explain how the use of congressional power described in

Part A can be affected by its interaction with the presidency.

(C) In the context of the scenario, explain how the interaction between Congress and the

presidency can be affected by linkage institutions.

Answer 1

Answer:

(a)The congress could pass a bill by stopping medications of life-or death from being increased to a particular value, thereby making Mylan to reduce their prices, to a more tangible value (b) If the president is not part of this decision, he can use his veto powers against the bill passed by the congress, thereby making Mylan to retain their rates as high as it is currently (c) Lobbyist and Interest groups will further express their ideas towards the president and congressmen to hold on, or make a change in the bill.

Explanation:

Solution:

(a) Congress could pass a bill by stopping important life-or-death medications from being added up above a certain value. in doing so,Mylan would be  made  to lower their prices to a more sensible value.

(b) If the President is not in approval of this sort of law making, he can use the power of veto towards the  bill passed by Congress, in doing so Mylan can keep their rates as high as present as it is now. As a result, the power of Congress is weakened by the President's own power.

(c) For them to push their ideas forward, many lobbyists  and interest groups would likely meet with the president and congressmen encouraging  them to either or hold firm or make a change in their position on the bill such as lobbying  several organizations that fight for the right of victims would urge congress to disallow a presidential veto of the bill this would mean that if they vote to override the veto, the bill becomes a law.