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1. There is no evidence of any R&D efforts. He did "market research", i.e. finding new drugs to acquire and hike the price on. 2. It was absolutely 100% not fr
by gizmo 9y ago
1. There is no evidence of any R&D efforts. He did "market research", i.e. finding new drugs to acquire and hike the price on.
2. It was absolutely 100% not free to any individual who wished to obtain it. If you had no insurance you might (or might not) get it for free, but if you had lousy insurance you could get stuck with a 20% copay, which means you have to pay $18,000 out of pocket -per month-. Also, hospitals stopped having Daraprim in stock because of the price hike which means people with acute cases are no longer able to start treatment immediately.
3. If you can't argue he hurt a lot of sick people, why are doctors and other healthcare professionals arguing exactly that?
I think you've been drinking the Shkreli cool-aid.
- sintaxi 9y agoI think you should start a pharmaceutical company to help these sick people.
- dingo_bat 9y agoWhat's interesting is that people are outraged at medicine prices but nobody wants to start a company to develop new molecules and sell them at the cheap. This shows that people realize that prices much lower than current are not sustainable. There is just a lot of R&D involved. But that realization does not prevent people from bitching about it or ascribing blame to people who are just doing what is viable for their business.