Probably. There are companies that do that.
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Well Iâm lucky no one accepted my bet, then. I certainly didnât mean it to not be cynical.
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Checkmate, libertarians. This is the market you wanted. I hope youâre happy. Just be sure not to catch toxo.
Also, not that it needs to be said, but Martin Shkreli is a human turd. I can smell him from here.
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Itâs a little bit more complicated I think/fear. This is what I found:
- GlaxoSmithKline own the US trademark (source: USPTO)
- Amedra Pharmaceuticals is the original packager for Daraprim in the US (source: NIH)
- Turing Pharmaceuticals is responsible for everything related to approval and reviews like newly found side effect (source: FDA)
I didnât found clear informations about the producer, I think candidates for the US market are GSK and Amedra
â eta
in Germany itâs easier: trademark GSK (source DPMA), applicant and manufactuer GSK (source BMG) : )
so that you can be more reasonably assured that it is the same drug, of reasonably similar quality. Do you trust everyone who might want to make a drug to be honest about it? I donât.
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Yeah, this is what I donât understand. Why do some people think that EVERY problem can be solved by throwing âthe Free Marketâ and âCapitalismâ at it? Not every screw is a nail.
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Indian generic drug manufacturers to the rescue: http://www.drugsupdate.com/brand/showavailablebrands/643
Although if those stinking turds masquerading as Free Trade Agreements that the USA is peddling around the world get signed, the rest of us will risk being sued under ISDR clauses if we switch to them ⌠
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Ahh, of course! Smaller government means fewer people at the FDA to oversee such nonsense right? So theyâll have to work faster!!! 
A sociopath like this guy would have it custom slaughtered and served as sashimi served on & and by naked teenagers at a dinner party held for his fellow douchebags.
Itâs like heâs really just asking âHow much is your life worth?â
Typically when someone is asking you that, they have a gun in their hand.
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Iâm sure he did buy tweets. HoweverâŚI was discussing this guy at a cafe/pub in my neighborhood with a friend the other day. A couple of millennials who I understand attend the University of Oregon business grad school very rudely (quite nasty) butted in our conversation and told us we have no right to criticize him because he is wealthier than us. Pretty much in those words LOL.
We said whatever, tried to ignore them, but one of them yelled âshut the fuck upâ, then they left after we laughed and sneered at them. Ohhhh the butt-hurt. Behavior & opinions like this seem to be waaay more common among members of this generation - especially ones in certain fields of study. But the lack of perspective of self & others seems to be way too common whatever their politics & social views.
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profiteering piece of shit.
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And that $2 per pill is probably about a 1000% profit.
APMâs Marketplace radio show gave a one-sentence statement that as of late this afternoon (Boston time, presumably, since thatâs where the show is made I think), Turing had returned the patent to whomever they got it from.
ETA - I wonder if maybe they were confusing Turing and Rodelis.
The price you see at a UK pharmacy is the NHS subsidized price, not the price paid to GSK.
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Well, we can blame the entrepreneurs who buy up a drug and sell it for whatever they want⌠or we can blame our own selves for 50 yearsâ worth of electing congresscritters who fail to nationalize drug production, or at the very least put all pricing under a Federal review board which can both set prices and force manufacturers to either produce or hand the goods over to the NIH.
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I donât understand how this works on several levels: 1) shouldnât drug companies be required do disclose all information necessary to make generics as part of a patent application? Like if they donât do that, their patent was invalid? Even beyond the patent application, the FDA should be requiring this level of documentation as a condition of approval and continued license to distribute. 2) how can they stop this? If they have an FDA approved drug that they are selling on the market, how can they keep competitors who are legally allowed to buy it from doing so? That doesnât sound legal either.
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Youâre much politer than me, clearly. Actually, I donât think that kind of intrusion into a conversation would go down well in most pubs here. Iâm politer than most folk in them. How did you not punch them? No, really.
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Youâve got that last part all wrong. It is NOT a free market failure. It is precisely how the free market will work if you leave it alone. So it is really a free market win.
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Hey GilbertWham - thanks for the compliment.
Well G., - itâs not a bar - itâs an all ages corner store that has evolved into a nice gathering place for all ages & economic/educational strata. Homeless people eve - itâs cool to see an MD, cop, retiree & a road-dog discussing football. It still sells milk, eggs &whatnot - but it is also an amazing wine-store, plus their bottle fee for consuming the beer & wine you buy on-premises is a quarter to 50 cents - half the time they donât seem to charge it. They have good wifi too. Oh - they also serve really great food - the concessionaire leasing their kitchen makes great food for a very reasonable price.
Also - Iâve been a customer since I was 12 (now in my 40âs - ugh) - known the guys - brothers - whoâve owned it since I was 12. Tom & Joe took it over from their parents. The broâs also know my parents. Iâm back in town for an extended stay to help with a family member who is now on the mend.
So - why didnât I punch him?
Well - 'cause I wouldnât punch an obnoxious guest in my hostâs living room - or place of work. Kind like I try not to be a dick here on the BB BBS. But - what about a regular bar? The thought would cross my mind - especially ten years ago. Ten years ago I would have (likely) gotten nasty right back - even at the Broâs pub I think, if pushed. At a bar ten years ago would have been hard not to get in a fight and it did happen a few times.
So in this case - in addition to all of the above (clear as mud?) - I decided the passive aggressive response would be much, much, more fun.
And it WAS!!!
âedit â ohâŚbtwâŚIâm in Eugene Oregon. If you donât mind answering in which general area are you G. ?
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