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> All pharma companies price gouge. Perhaps, but only Shkreli decided to 10× his drug prices overnight. Or, as one person put it, "[Shkreli] is to a research-b
by jcranmer 3y ago
> All pharma companies price gouge.
Perhaps, but only Shkreli decided to 10× his drug prices overnight. Or, as one person put it, "[Shkreli] is to a research-based company like a loan shark to a legitimate bank"
- busterarm 3y agoThe patent had expired on the drug four decades prior and no other pharmaceutical bothered to try and make it available. We really got the best outcome out of this stunt. He exposed real weaknesses in what we're doing and also the FDA process to market generics and instead of doing anything to fix it outside of the context of this one drug, we shot the messenger.