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He gouged the sick for profit. Is that concrete enough?
by adamwong246 8y ago
He gouged the sick for profit. Is that concrete enough?
- Kaveren 8y agoFrom what I understand he only raised prices that insurance companies would pay. He offered the drug for free to anyone without insurance who couldn't afford it. So, not exactly.
- magnamerc 8y agoAlso, that money from insurance companies would go to the development of better and safer drugs. People just tend to skim the surface of a news story and form their opinions based on public consensus, which is that Shkreli is an evil person. Of course in reality, he's a distraction.
- jfk13 8y agoAnd if someone (unnecessarily, I presume - I doubt the drug had been a loss-maker while it was selling at a lower price) dramatically raises the price of a drug to insurance companies, where do you suppose the insurance companies will look to find the extra money?
- Kaveren 8y agoIn the case of Daraprim? Nowhere. It's not a drug many people need. Shrkreli himself has talked about this. It simply wouldn't be able to make a dent because of this, and it didn't. If I'm recalling correctly, and I might not be, Shkreli is agnostic about the larger policy issue at hand, he simply made a choice for his own business that had little to no negative real impact.
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- MechanicalTwerk 8y agoOne of the shittiest human beings on the face of the earth? Really? There are people alive today who have committed mass genocide. I'm going to go out on a limb and say they are probably shittier human beings than Martin Shkreli. So no, not concrete enough.
- adamwong246 8y agoDude, you are absolutely sick in the head. This isn't a race to the bottom and "being the worst person in history" isn't a qualifier for criminality or unethical behavior.
- icebraining 8y agoPersonal attacks break the HN guidelines.
- MechanicalTwerk 8y agoI said nothing of his criminality or ethics. I just said he's not one of the shittiest human beings on the face of the earth. I mean you could kind of argue that OP thinks it's a race to the bottom, not me.
- dang 8y agoPersonal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't post like this again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- onetimemanytime 8y ago>>He gouged the sick for profit. Is that concrete enough? Who in that (for profit) business doesn't???? Excluding Mother Teresa like foundations... Why do you think out health care bill is so freaking high? Because of compassion from pharma CEOs?
- 1000units 8y agoKUKU bro, he [provided a cure] to [people with life-threatening illness] for PROFIT? Is this Hacker News?