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I feel like he's mistreated because of how he looks

ToucanLoucan 3y ago
I mean that may be, but the dude also cranked the price of insulin for no reason beyond he could and it would make him richer. So like, good luck finding some sympathetic ears for him.
- artursapek 3y ago
  Have you actually listened to him talk about it, or only read Forbes articles?
- busterarm 3y ago
  Insulin? He didn't have anything to do with insulin. It was Daraprim/Pyrimethamine. It's used to treat toxoplasmosis. It's also been off-patent for over 40 years and another pharmaceutical could have made a generic but none thought it would be profitable enough to even bother.
  - ToucanLoucan 3y ago
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  - artursapek 3y ago
    Really goes to show how uninformed these opinions of him are.
    - busterarm 3y ago
      Why be informed when you can blindly hate and double down when presented with any information without any consequences?
      - ToucanLoucan 3y ago
        I accepted your correction and reaffirmed he's still a piece of shit because jacking the price of any drugs for no reason apart from your ability to do so makes you a piece of shit. The specific drug in question may make you a smaller or larger piece of shit, but a piece of shit you remain. For that matter, not even isolated to drugs. Charging a higher price for the same product when you are already a ludicrously profitable entity for no reason is a shitty way to treat customers.
        busterarm 3y ago
        But there is a reason to increase the price of a drug. To fund research of new drugs. Also if you raise the price of an off-patent drug, other pharmaceuticals are incentivized to manufacture a generic to compete with you and bring your prices down. At the time nobody was touching it for 40 years. Keep in mind that this price is what was charged to insurers. Insurers negotiate the price back down. Uninsured patients up to 5x the federal poverty level were promised the drug for free. Pharma companies in the US will charge what insurance companies are willing to pay. It's not an issue of individual greed, it's an issue of a regulatory system and set of incentives that collectively are fucking you. There are far more expensive drugs out there than Daraprim with worse markups and nobody is identifying the CEO of those companies and calling them the most hated man on earth.
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        artursapek 3y ago
        https://youtu.be/ZY0DG8rUnCA?t=85 https://youtu.be/ZY0DG8rUnCA?t=85
busterarm 3y ago
It's not that really. At least not the whole of it. It was just easy to tie him as a face to the kind of corporate entities that people hate. Also his position was much more vulnerable than other pharma executives who can afford to pay armies of PR teams, etc. He has a need for attention and a poor sense of self-preservation -- sort of like weev but without being a massive racist.

I mean that may be, but the dude also cranked the price of insulin for no reason beyond he could and it would make him richer. So like, good luck finding some sympathetic ears for him.

artursapek 3y ago
Have you actually listened to him talk about it, or only read Forbes articles?
busterarm 3y ago
Insulin? He didn't have anything to do with insulin. It was Daraprim/Pyrimethamine. It's used to treat toxoplasmosis. It's also been off-patent for over 40 years and another pharmaceutical could have made a generic but none thought it would be profitable enough to even bother.
- ToucanLoucan 3y ago
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- artursapek 3y ago
  Really goes to show how uninformed these opinions of him are.
  - busterarm 3y ago
    Why be informed when you can blindly hate and double down when presented with any information without any consequences?
    - ToucanLoucan 3y ago
      I accepted your correction and reaffirmed he's still a piece of shit because jacking the price of any drugs for no reason apart from your ability to do so makes you a piece of shit. The specific drug in question may make you a smaller or larger piece of shit, but a piece of shit you remain. For that matter, not even isolated to drugs. Charging a higher price for the same product when you are already a ludicrously profitable entity for no reason is a shitty way to treat customers.
      - busterarm 3y ago
        But there is a reason to increase the price of a drug. To fund research of new drugs. Also if you raise the price of an off-patent drug, other pharmaceuticals are incentivized to manufacture a generic to compete with you and bring your prices down. At the time nobody was touching it for 40 years. Keep in mind that this price is what was charged to insurers. Insurers negotiate the price back down. Uninsured patients up to 5x the federal poverty level were promised the drug for free. Pharma companies in the US will charge what insurance companies are willing to pay. It's not an issue of individual greed, it's an issue of a regulatory system and set of incentives that collectively are fucking you. There are far more expensive drugs out there than Daraprim with worse markups and nobody is identifying the CEO of those companies and calling them the most hated man on earth.
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      - artursapek 3y ago
        https://youtu.be/ZY0DG8rUnCA?t=85 https://youtu.be/ZY0DG8rUnCA?t=85

busterarm 3y ago

It's not that really. At least not the whole of it. It was just easy to tie him as a face to the kind of corporate entities that people hate. Also his position was much more vulnerable than other pharma executives who can afford to pay armies of PR teams, etc. He has a need for attention and a poor sense of self-preservation -- sort of like weev but without being a massive racist.