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[–]argentinean 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

good post about the attitude.

but patent rights are monopoly, state-supported rights. no free market there.

[–]dammitd 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Patents are long expired for these drugs

[–]ModRedSovereign 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Machiavellian as fuck, that's for sure.

[–]moneyandsexislife 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Good luck with revenue. Supply & demand.

[–]AmlanceJockey 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

The demand curve wont really change here. People who need the drug, need the drug. They have a legal monopoly on the cure. Uninsured patients wont be able to afford it, but thats a loss of a few dollars per patient. Insured patients will more than make up for it. This action is like a government raising taxes. People will grumble, but they always write that check.

[–]doubledup-tn 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

The business student in me absolutely applauds that man.

The chemist in me absolutely despises him for that.

There will always be a balance between getting your way, and doing what's 'right'. I don't personally agree with what he did, because I can see beyond the money and the fact that there will be a lot of people, men and women, placed in harm's way as a result of this.

I also think that in the long run this move will backfire and end up biting him in the ass when some other company creates an identical version of the drug under a different name, and insurance companies refuse to pay his outlandish price.

[–]dripred[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

The genius part of it all, his company has distribution on such tight lock down hospitals can barely get enough to keep in stock. They said the likelihood of any company getting enough of the drug to attempt to create a generic - borders on impossibility. This guy is so shrewd and demented. A real life Patrick Bateman.

[–]doubledup-tn 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

The drug has also been around for 60 years, which means that any patent surrounding it no longer holds valid. There might not have been any financial reason to create a generic drug when it was priced at $13, but there sure is now.

[–]dripred[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Some one enterprising should go around and "pharma-squat" small caches of rare but life-critical drugs like this one before companies like Shkreli's make a run on the patents so that you can serve as middle man to companies seeking to make generics who can't get product from the big dogs who want to thwart production of viable identicals.

[–]bovizlo 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Do as you wish, take advantage of people to the fullest extent, but don't cry if it blows up on you. Even if you don't care about people, morals protect you from getting fucked by public opinion and big daddy government.

[–]AmlanceJockey 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Short of a french style revolution, he's pretty safe.

[–]bovizlo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Not true; these business practices sound very likely to be illegal. Could be legal consequences. This sort of antisocial behavior gets you excluded from many business circles as well. To obvious, poor form.

Those are potential consequences. In terms of certain effects, this will lose business. With how expensive the drug is now, it is cheaper to go on a medical tourism trip to India, take the drug, and live like an absolute baller. Competitors will also start up. The drug made a profit on 1$ per pill, it certainly could on 'only' 100$.

[–]HitlersGayLoverTrump -2ポイント-1ポイント  (1子コメント)

LOL fuck everybody right hail the free market with a monopoly fuck bitches 4 lyfe

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