Slashdot Mirror
Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Daraprim Pill (chicagotribune.com)
An anonymous reader writes: We recently read about a U.S. company that bought the rights to a drug called Daraprim and then boosted the price over 5,000%. There was widespread outrage over this blatant price gouging, most of it focused on hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli. Now, a San Diego-based drug company called Imprimis has stepped in to fill the void. They announced that they'll be supplying capsules containing the same active ingredients in Daraprim for $1 per dose. Their CEO, Mark Baum, said they'll also start making alternative versions of other generic medicines that have skyrocketed in price lately. "Imprimis, which primarily makes compounded drugs to treat cataracts and urological conditions, will work with health insurers and prescription benefit managers in each state to make its new capsules and other compounded generic medicines widely available, Baum said."
"they'll be supplying capsules containing the same active ingredients in Daraprim for $1 per dose."
But you need 750 doses per day. Dammit Big Pharma, I think I'm out and you pull me back in.
Pretending this is my office full of bitter coworkers..
There is no room for ethics on capitalism. The market sets the rate, based on what people are to pay. Since people will die if they don't take the drug, they will pay every penny they have (or that their insurance is willing to give).
What are you, some kind of communist? Expecting companies to act in the interests of the general good, guided by morality...
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
No he's not, LEARN TO READ ffs.
When Chevy says that they're truck
He's saying that you shouldn't believe someone who says they are a truck. They are LYING to you, they are actually just a person in a truck outfit.
If it's in you sig, it's in your post.
Oh shit he could possibly face MONTHS of incarceration in a minimum security jail and fined 10% of his profits.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard