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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."
If the little guy can't afford $100 pills, it should cost $10K for the millionaire.
Feel free to start your own biotech company and lay out just such a scheme. Slashdorks have a way or randomly deciding how society should work but never put any skin in the game. Sounds like the welfare pricks who vote in more entitlement promising politicians knowing that they have nothing to lose if the total tax rate on the struggling middle class is 40% or 65%.
So instead of sitting around looking for hollow validation of your ideas why don't you put your grand vision into action and come back and let us know how it's done. Otherwise you're just another shit puppet living in fantasy land.
Fuck, I think you have a great fucking idea. You should be endowed 50 bazillion dollars by some Saudi price to see it become a reality!!!!1111!!! Now mod me up, motherfuckers.