So I recently came across a video having to do with Martin Shkreli the former CEO of turning pharmaceuticals which is the manufacturer of two main products, Daraprim for the treatment of toxoplasmosis which they got marketing rights from Impax Laboratories, and Vecamyl for the treatment of hypertension. This company was launched in February 2015 but received a lot of criticism a couple of months later when he skyrocketed the price at an estimated "5000% following its acquisition of rights to the drug in 2015". So the once $13 tablet went up too $750. And I was just thinking how I would react to the question he got asked here? I would imagine your moral and ethics would come into play, but for him to just smirk when asked “ what do you tell that pregnant old lady that might have AIDS with no income that needs Daraprim to survive” and then go to twitter and post that it's " Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government" is just absurd and ridiculous to me. Unfortunately I feel like this is just part of our capitalist world, to try to make a profit instead of trying to do good to our fellow peers and world.
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I've seen this too, and I definitely feel like this is what many of the people who find cures for diseases are wanting to do.They know many people are in need of the medication and that they have the "key" to make it better,but they make it hard for the people to actually get it. I think this relates to Haley's post about the cure for cancer probably already being known, but not exposed for the billions of dollars the industry makes off chemo and those other procedures alone. I find it so greedy and pretty sad because of those suffering to survive.
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