Ex-hedge funder buys rights to AIDS drug and raises price from $13.50 to $750 per pill

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47. Twitter Shreds Drug Profiteer as Price Rise Scandal Goes National

“It really doesn’t make sense to get any criticism for this," Martin Shkreli said, unaware that it really does

By Scott Eric Kaufman / Salon September 21, 2015

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/twitter-shreds-drug-profiteer-price-rise-scandal-goes-national?akid=13505.44541.4xMtp6&rd=1&src=newsletter1042811&t=14

Lots of righteous tweets ......... this guy is going to feel the wrath of the whole world. Sociopaths don't let this bother them though, he'll be fine.


Comments:

vladilyich • an hour ago

The company also made news last night on the CBC's "The National" in Canada. They did something almost as bad with another drug and raised the price 2000% over night. This was for a drug that's about the only thing to treat drug resistant TB and raised the price from $10 a dose to over $250. The thing that's different is that this drug is used for long-term treatment so a patient will end up paying close to a million dollars for the full course.

llozano • 33 minutes ago

Get used to this happening on a large scale if the TPP goes into effect. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the Trade deal will be pharmaceutical companies. They will be raking in billions of patents for medications here and abroad. It is a deal made in heaven for them.

Yes:

TPP Trade Deal Will Be Devastating for Access to Affordable Medicines

By Doctors Without borders
Source: Doctors Without Borders
February 2, 2015

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016113174

Ten Reasons Why the TPP Must Be Defeated

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/12/31/ten-reasons-why-tpp-must-be-defeated