>Buys a company
>decides he wants to expand R&D towards a drug no one gives a fuck about
>increases price of an exclusive drug to make money
>forces copay to be between 1$ and 25$ for all insurances
>gives it away for free to those with no insurance
>everyone hates him for actually making the drug easier to get
why are liberal the absolute worst?
>>71924812
He's making insurance companies pay crazy amounts of money for something he is over pricing. You are too stupid to not understand that cost will be passed down to you.
>>71924903
Actually taxpayers are paying 0.0001$ for the drug because of Obama care
Don't hate the player, hate the game
I think he brought the distribution rights, but a generic drug company decided to produce daraprim for $1 after his price hike.
Not sure whether he did illegal stuff or stuff in his hedge fund and at retrophin
>>71924903
it's the only drug of its kind. dont defend jews anon
>>71925065
>Actually taxpayers are paying 0.0001$ for the drug because of Obama care
Actually I pay ~$160 a month due to the private healthcare I have. How old are you? Do you even have health insurance or does mommy set that up for you?
>>71925121
Still he is hurting not helping the fundamental problem with our system and that is insane costs for minor operations and medication. The providers like him gouge and insurance companies in turn gouge but they always gouge a little extra so they can use the shit he does as a cover to raise profits. I have family in the industry they explained the bullshit they do.
>>71925299
you're paying 160 a month due to his drug increase alone? well fuck, maybe dont get something you dont want to pay for over yelling at someone trying to make money you socialist.
>>71925299
>I pay $160 a month for a drug I dont take
>>71924812
Denying drugs to a bunch of homsexual degenerates good guy tbhfam
>>71925427
>>71925539
No I pay $160 because of the mentality of people like Shkrelli. I explained this clearly in my post of course you two retards will ignore that and attempt a strawman.
>>71925299
>Being this retarded
>At the same time of being this socialist
Lovin' it.
You know he gives the drug away for free to whoever can't afford it, right? You have no argument against him except your feelings, kys please.
>>71925734
You're a fucking idiot,
Your premiums are rising because of government intervention in healthcare
If I was shkreli, I'd raise the prises to the maximum since they are inelastic
Shkreli is just a finance genius. You should be angry at Obama for single payer healthcare
Shkreli = hero
You pay a certain amount in your taxes and health insurance to cover the costs of not only yourself but others.
The cost of the pill increases those amounts on everyone involved and not necessarily the individusls that require the medicine.
>>71924903
Well yeah, but at least I'm giving my money by choice to a private company and not the government who would lower the price in violation of this guy's individual freedom. I don't mind having a disease make me broke as a joke, as long as I'm free!
Shkreli is based as all fuck
>>71925819
>you're a retard cause I say so >REEEEEEEEEEE
It isn't free he is forcing insurance companies to pay a lot and when they have to pay a lot they raise premiums on us.
>>71926007
Premiums went up before Obama you dumb piece of shit.
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/071415/did-obamacare-make-premiums-go.asp
>While a 6% uptick may sound significant, it actually looks pretty attractive in comparison to pricing trends before the healthcare law. The Commonwealth Fund, another nonpartisan research organization, studied the three-year period prior to the passage of the ACA – from 2008 to 2010 – and found that premiums on the individual market were rising by 10% or more per year nationwide.
>>71926119
Look I am a capitalist myself but these companies need some checks. Otherwise they will keep raising prices and pass it on to you and see how far they can go with this.
>>71926007
The insurance system in America is socialist. Just because the government doesn't own it doesn't make it anti-capitalist and therefore repugnant. Don't you support free markets, anon?
>>71926314
I was being sarcastic. There's no free market for essential services, and healthcare is an essential service.
>>71925734
then dont buy insurance you fucking idiot, that's literally how it works and our crying about something you dont have to buy
>>71926007
this
>>71926446
>wah wah wah you don't like it don't complain and take your ball and go home
I thought this wasn't a liberal site? Am I on Mother Jones let me check again....nope no I am not.
>>71926446
>yes, choose to bankrupt your family and then die if you don't like it, this is America!
>>71926542
>wah wah wah
stopped right there redditor
>>71926542
"take your ball and go home" is a basic conservative value. Not doing so is liberal
>>71926547
>NO YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS INSURANCE AND YOU HAVE TO PAY THAT AMOUNT FOR DRUGS I DONT WANT
>I DON'T KNOW WHAT EMERGENCY ROOM ONLY INSURANCE IS
>>71926592
>you don't agree with us silence him and make him leave
>i'm the redditor
>>71924903
Insurance companies are one of the biggest enemies of freedom though.
Here in Canada its mandatory to have and they charge whatever they want.
They are nearly untouchable as well, the only way to get them to pay when something happens is to get a specialized lawyer and sue.
I'm just glad we don't need health insurance.
The average person in Canada is paying almost 5k annually to these corrupt fuckers, and their main job is figuring out ways to avoid covering costs.
I understand why we have insurance, but I just think they need someone to put them in check.
>>71926654
No a conservative principle is creating a better system but you literally can't due to the relationship of the health industry, insurance providers and politicians.
>>71926714
>silence him and make him leave
what am i even reading?
>>71926800
no thats socialism, bernshill
>>71926800
nah cunt.
>muh aids medicine is expensive
>muh shkreli is being a jew
>muh insurance premiums
mfw
>>71926842
>voted Trump last week
>now i'm a bernshill
>>71926872
>free market capitalism and competition is not a conservative principle
Ok maybe I had enough of /pol/ for the day. Enjoy you pathetic NEETs mommy and the state won't pay your insurance forever and one day you'll have to understand how this works.
>>71926923
except it was to provide massive growth towards R&D to toxoplasmosis and it made the drug easier to get and overall cheaper due to copay
>>71926984
>i voted trump, see i said so right here am now im not a kikeshill
>>71926984
>a man choosing to raise the price on a drug he owns isnt free market capitalism
>you opting out of the system isnt part of the free market
kys mang
>>71926345
Yes I support the free markets and I support shkreli
>>71924903
He's only able to do this because of the bullshit regulations involved in getting a manufacture approved to make a competing version of the drug. The entire process of getting a competing product out is so prohibitively expensive (due to artificial reasons) that he ends up with a de facto monopoly.
Blame the government, not the company.
>>71926984
JIDF detected
>>71927397
I think the generic from of the drug was about to come out anyway, meaning any company could make it
>>71926692
>buy emergency room only insurance
>get cancer
>family goes bankrupt to save you
>eventually exhaust all the money
>die
Snek
>>71924812
You know he played up his villainy on purpose to get people riled up?
I'm thinking part of the reason is to shame insurance companies into paying for the daraprim increases so that patients don't get hit with a tab.
>>71927670
U r retarded
>>71927739
not an argument
>posting about overpricing
>insurance
>shekels
>arguments
>america
>this gonna be good
>>71927670
if youre worried about getting cancer, get insurance to cover that
>deal with it manbaby
>>71924812
>debating with bleeding heart liberal about Based Shkreli
>say all this shit
>straight up says he doesn't believe me
>I say it's straight from Based Shkreli
>he says there are articles from MSNBC and Fox debunking these claims
>why the fuck should I trust MSNBC and Fox over the dude who did it
>he says he wouldn't believe a single thing that slimy SoB says
>fucking hell
Why can't Liberals do research
>>71928880
>a la carte insurance
>unicorns
And other things that don't exist.
>>71925299
>Actually I pay ~$160 a month due to the private healthcare I have. How old are you? Do you even have health insurance or does mommy set that up for you?
Maybe find a better job if 160/mo is expensive for you lmao.
>>71929369
lmao, Did I say a la carte? No, buy the full shit fuckboy
>>71927670
okay then but full insurance
it's your choice, no one is putting a gun to your head to buy either
>>71929369
>literally says edgy in the ID
>is edgy
kek
>>71924812
Shkrelli is an hero.
>>71929655
>nobody is forcing you to do it
>but if you don't, you bankrupt your family and die
You're a special kind of retard if you think a free market means pay or die.
>>71930901
or you could just die
I think you should just die
>>71927573
No, the issue is not copyright. This drug has been generic for a very long time.
The issue is that it's an orphan drug (ie, not very economically viable and only one manufacture bothered to actually make it). Even though a drug is off patent, that doesn't mean anyone can go ahead and make/sell/distribute it. you still need FDA approval, go through all the steps of getting an abbreviated NDA passed, etc. It's a lot of time, effort, and money to get going. And all for a drug that's not economically viable in the first place.
>>71930901
>no you see if the gobernment doesnt gib me dat den i die DDDDDD:
>>71924812
this is free market capitalism at its finest
he filled a gap in the market with his product
he deserves every shekel he grubs from the stupid goyim
>>71924812
He's the perfect example of why capitalism can only be great when practiced with restraint and ethics.
>>71932256
>>71932478
Except it's not free market principles that allowed him to take advantage of the system like this. He was only able to "take advantage of the system" because the system is decidedly NOT a free market and has an incredibly long and arduous laundry list of regulations that prevents competition.
It's an artificial monopoly. This sort of thing doesn't happen in a free market.
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