I believe he is the one who manufactured a life saving drug at $13.50 but then changed the price to $750. His excuse was that it would bring money for research to fight other diseases. Even though he is making a huge profit off the expense of dying and ill patients who really need that drug. I doubt any health insurance company would want to cover the cost is of the medicine since its $750 per pill. Meaning the user is gonna have to fork over the cash themselves.
I forget his name, but his company, called Turing Pharmaceuticals I believe, bought a drug made to help people with AIDS, and raised the price from $13.30 a dose, to $750.
Yep, totally United States of Fuck this guy.
He got the rights to some very important and life saving aids medication. He then promptly jacked the price up by an insane amount which made the medication far too expensive for most people and made him look like the anti-christ.
I assume that the majority of people who need this pill couldn't afford it at 13.50 X 30 days X 12 months X years of life. How are they supposed to do it 750? Let's see how much money you get for "research" when all the people who needs it dies! I can't believe people like this exist. Why the fuck does this guy exist?!
I think that's a good thing, to be honest.
People uniting for love is fragile, and can be swayed and broken easily.
Hatred is burning. And the only thing that can satisfy it, is the hated thing being destroyed or fundamentally changed.
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Hatred is more reliable than love.
The guy is a douche for sure, but the real problem is that the government got involved and made it possible for him to do it in the first place. The same pill costs only a few cents in India, and not much more than that in Europe.
http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/the-pill-whose-price-went-up-5000-it-costs-5-cents-in-india/
Yet all the people who are angry at this guy want to give more power to the government to keep this from happening again. Brilliant, sheeple. Brilliant.
It's in the article I linked to. But basically instead of letting capitalism work the way it's supposed to work, they stepped in and added extreme costs for companies to get approved to create a drug that has already been approved. Because of this, no other companies could get approved. There is no patent on the drug - any company could make it if the government would allow them. But in the US, this douche saw that no other companies would ever be able to compete with him, so he could raise the price as high as he wanted. This is what happens when there isn't competition.
Yep, totally United States of Fuck this guy.
White, Black.
Poor, Rich.
Pacifist, Warlord.
We all want this fucker to burn.
People uniting for love is fragile, and can be swayed and broken easily.
Hatred is burning. And the only thing that can satisfy it, is the hated thing being destroyed or fundamentally changed.
.
Hatred is more reliable than love.
http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/the-pill-whose-price-went-up-5000-it-costs-5-cents-in-india/
Yet all the people who are angry at this guy want to give more power to the government to keep this from happening again. Brilliant, sheeple. Brilliant.
That's bound to make the drug affordable to all, right?