Don’t care. Get the drug out at cost or lower.
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Methinks global warming is a bigger threat than some greedy guy.
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we can combine those 2 threats: has the greedy guy invested in coal mines?
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There is a cure for what ails him… it coast 19.9¢ per round.
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Now they run Kosovo.
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I’m going to have to invoke Poe’s Law here. I lack the context to tell if you are being ironic or not…
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I’m loving the irony of the company being named “Turing Pharmaceuticals” — as Martin Shkreli clearly fails the test of passing as a human being.
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Toxoplasmosis is spread via cat feces. The kitties and I would be happy to deliver extra-fresh daily samples right to this dirtbag’s doorstep. For scientific testing, of course. Perhaps we’ll get some friends to join us.
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You mean the FDA as a positive example of a drug regulation agency? Unironic. FDA’s processes are far from perfect, but are - to the best of my knowledge[0] - more transparent and detailed than everywhere[1] else.
[0] as said before I worked in this industry, but my insight is not direct but based on stories my colleagues told
[1] see [0], “everywhere” is restricted to EMA (Europe) and few national agencies in Europe
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As you say, but the UK isn’t the only place you can get it cheaply. In Mexico it does not require a prescription and can be had for less than you can get it in the UK. If you buy from pharma companies out of India you pay $0.45 per pill. The drug is produced all around the world. You don’t have to get it from the U.S. maker.
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http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/a-single-payer-system-makes-economic-sense
And, here’s why so many average Americans keep thinking, working, voting (if they bother) against their own best interests:
If you still haven’t seen this absolutely historic interview in its entirety with a top Cigna insurance industry whistleblower and still believe single payer is a “bad idea” for America…
Frankly, you’re a part of what’s wrong with America in 2015.
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That isn’t “true” socialism, it’s just one form of it. It was favoured by leninists and stalinists though, and I can see how their habit of brutally stopping all alternatives in favour of their “one true way” could lead to people believing that.
Sorry for going off-topic, i just get a bit irritated when workers self management or other libertarian-socialist ideas aren’t considered to be real socialism.
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There’s also a huge difference between control and regulation.
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I agree there needs to be regulation on many things.
I think part of the amazeballs about this story is that it’s not a story and that it happens all the time in the industry. That doesn’t make it any less right than the X number of times it happened prior.
As to the profits, I think you mean, “Especially to make a point about not doing it for maliciously usurious profit.” I agree that the regulation system needs to be cheaper without compromising whatever safety or information is generated, but I’m not going to spend a great deal of time weeping about the profits of the multinational megalopolii corporaticus. Cue the GIF of Anthony Hopkins’ post-stroke character in “Seasons of the Fall” throwing out his index finger along with a raspy and from-the-heart “fuck 'em!”
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Yeah I’m not one to start fights or even participate in fights, but it would have taken everything I had to avoid a rapid escalation there.
I think Kermit was actually thinking of “Call Me Dave” Cameron there…
Round up all these fuckers and bury them in a cornfield.
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Which is just another of many aspects of Socialism. As is Healthcare, as is a Jury of peers, as is Social Security.
It’s this American historic hangup of Socialism equals Communism equals Enemy, that people are still failing to understand the bad analogy.
75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America
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It’s a system of control and learned helplessness, I think that counts!
