Desire to Make Money from Daraprim
By marcyaz
@Marcyaz (35316)
United States
September 22, 2015 9:20am CST
I don't feel this is right and somebody in Congress needs to put a stop to it.
Martin Shkreli the owner of Turing Pharmaceuticals who recently acquired Daraprim has raised the price from $13.50 to $750 per pill, yes $750 per pill.
That is more than a 5000 % increase.
No wonder people are dying who the heck can pay for pills that are that high.
According to medical experts there’s no change in what the drug does, or how it works.
It is simply that this Martin wants more money any way he can get it.
He has done the same thing in another company he was with
. Patients should not have to make a decision should I eat or pay all my money for this drug to keep me alive.
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12 responses
@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
22 Sep 15
That is what one might call-looting in broad daylight. This overshooting price rise, is beyond comprehension, to say the least. I am not sure if any consumers, or pharmaceutical distributors body has taken exception to it. I feel that they should pick up cudgels against him.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
22 Sep 15
@gregario888
It is definitely unethical no matter what he says his reasons are for the price hike.
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@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
22 Sep 15
@Marcyaz Looks like that fellow wants to make as much hay, as he can, before the sun sets. The patients, and everyone else be damned. It is very unethical also.
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@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
22 Sep 15
Boy am i happy i don't have to take pills....If i did though i'd check into an off brand or see what the ingredients are and make my own through herbs which is what i do anyway..
he probably was bullied and is taking it out on people who he feels he can control now..looks like a 20 year old
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
22 Sep 15
@Susan2015
It is not a good thing to scam people out of their money like that he is no better than a scammer.
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
25 Sep 15
Apparently he's going to lower the price since everybody's po'd at him. Not sure how much yet.
Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli said Tuesday he would roll back the massive price increase for lifesaving drug Daraprim after a fierce public backlash that included presidential candidates.
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
25 Sep 15
This is the USA and meds are insanely expensive as we all know.
This guy is just one of many.
Cant get too sick in America, else you have to get your meds elsewhere..:(
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@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
24 Sep 15
I deal with teenagers with AIDS--you don't want to hear what I think of that (Y^&$%#^&%--and that's being nice!
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@spleendingo1 (799)
• Grand Haven, Michigan
23 Sep 15
That is corrupt, outrageous, and the definition of unethical.
Wait, we're talking about pills....I thought you meant Dominoes raising their delivery price. But this is pretty bad too....lol
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
24 Sep 15
@spleendingo1
Priorities his having money in his pocket from scamming people, yes I call it scamming.
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@spleendingo1 (799)
• Grand Haven, Michigan
25 Sep 15
@Marcyaz Scamming it is. The ONLY person who doesn't think so is him. And maybe his mom.
@spleendingo1 (799)
• Grand Haven, Michigan
24 Sep 15
@Marcyaz Priorities you know.....
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@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
24 Sep 15
May be the company has monopoly on Daraprim and the Company knows that its good substitutes are not available, they took the advantage of this fact and increased the prices, without bothering about patients. For some money is more important than a man's life.
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
22 Sep 15
![Pyrimethamine - By DFliyerz (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://img.mylot.com/350x350/2720109.jpeg "Pyrimethamine - By DFliyerz (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons")
I haven't heard exactly what the pill is for on the news.
Looking it up en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrimethamine I see it's for prevention/treatment of malaria (for people with immunodeficiency).
Maybe it sounds cruel & tyrannical, but ... Survival of the Fittest ???
@writerjo (2540)
• India
24 Sep 15
@Marcyaz Increasing this much percentage of one pill is their own wish and definitely it not a healthy matter for a company .
They might faced heavy demand in raw materials to produce Daraprim and they might known the essential of the pill . The another reason may be no competition or substitute for that pill..
A gradual increase can be accepted but this much is not acceptable .
The people only suffers .
I don't know how the Government interfere and control this .
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@Shyamalaa (525)
• Udaipur, India
23 Sep 15
Daylight robbery, from the sound of it!
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@akalinus (43209)
• United States
23 Sep 15
I think it is a disgusting display of greed and disregard for the people dependent on these pills for their very lives. He had the nerve to say that people should thank him for doing that and that it was a reasonable increase. It must take a cold heart to do this.
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@garymarsh6 (23405)
• United Kingdom
22 Sep 15
This is an absolute disgrace and this should be outlawed, Pure Greed in my opinion!
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