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HIV Medicine Price hike
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/8709/70236/#msg_70236
This is nothing less than an enormous cash grab from a vulnerable population who have no choice but to pay. Sign this petition now to ask Martin Shkreli to fully reverse the price increase now, and stop exploiting the sick:
http://action.sumofus.org/a/martin-shkreli/?sub=taf]]>timmy2015-09-23T19:17:30-00:00Re: HIV Medicine Price hike
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Funny that the mainstream media didn't mention its usefulness for AIDS sufferers. Hollywood would've gone batshit.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/drug-ceo-will-lower-pric e-daraprim-after-outrage-n431926]]>ChrisR2015-09-23T23:28:58-00:00Re: HIV Medicine Price hike
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Smokr2015-09-24T03:07:32-00:00Re: HIV Medicine Price hike
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The drug in question appears to have been developed in the 1950s so would now be out of patent in which case another manufacturer could produce a duplicate surely?
]]>ivor slipper2015-09-24T11:49:15-00:00Re: HIV Medicine Price hike
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I am sure that you've read the recent story in the news about the weasel, hedge funder who purchased the company that manufactured a drug essential for treating toxoplasmosis. As a marketing strategy he raised the price 5500%.
Forces unseen, have compelled this little weasel to sell the firm back to the original owners who have quietly doubled the old price.
If you think it was a humanitarian gesture, think again...
Currently, thanks to the affordable care act, the US government cannot negotiate wholesale drug costs. Why? Because it was the pharmaceuticals who wrote the legislation and whores that they are, our elected officials greedily took the money..
They got this guy in a corner and said, "You can't do that! You're gonna f*ck-up a good thing for all of us!"
The truth is they are all egregiously over charging. Thanks to the passive compliance of the government and with great precision, these corporations are pushing as far as the traffic will bare... In concert, they have a system and they can't have this little weasel coming in and ruining everything.
A side effect of this situation is that people with insufficient funds are trying to order from foreign pharmaceutical outlets most commonly in Canada.
The Fed's response is one: "Don't trust medications purchased abroad, they'll kill you!"
And 2: They use the Post Office to confiscate drug purchases considered illegal, depriving desperate people of their medication.
In a truly free market place you should be able to purchase drugs anywhere at the lowest price. These big corporations want a free market for themselves,...but not for us.
Do you see the contradiction?
Ask yourself, "Who the is the government working for?"]]>larkin2015-09-24T12:27:07-00:00Re: HIV Medicine Price hike
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Sad to see that the $$$$ are more important. ]]>Ashdaw2015-09-24T14:10:03-00:00Re: HIV Medicine Price hike
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Warren C. E. Austin
The Gay Deceiver
Toronto, Canada
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There's now a $1-a-pill competitor to pharma CEO Martin Shkreli's $750-a-pill drug
< https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/theres-now-1-pill-competit or-202700857.html>]]>Kitzyma2015-10-23T14:59:59-00:00Re: HIV Medicine Price hike
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ivor slipper wrote on Thu, 24 September 2015 12:49I don't agree with his actions, but doubt he will be concerned about a petition.
The drug in question appears to have been developed in the 1950s so would now be out of patent in which case another manufacturer could produce a duplicate surely?
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That's what I was wondering. I mean, as I understand it, when something is out of patent what's stopping even lil ole me from cooking up a batch of pills and shipping them out to the sick for.... FREE!]]>James Matthews2015-10-25T19:33:01-00:00Re: HIV Medicine Price hike
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WestcliffWriter wrote on Sun, 25 October 2015 19:33
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ivor slipper wrote on Thu, 24 September 2015 12:49I don't agree with his actions, but doubt he will be concerned about a petition.
The drug in question appears to have been developed in the 1950s so would now be out of patent in which case another manufacturer could produce a duplicate surely?
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That's what I was wondering. I mean, as I understand it, when something is out of patent what's stopping even lil ole me from cooking up a batch of pills and shipping them out to the sick for.... FREE!
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99 cents is almost free... see my post above.]]>Kitzyma2015-10-25T22:40:23-00:00Re: HIV Medicine Price hike
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I'm a firm believer in free markets and capitalism, but he is a real piece of trash. What he did was not free-market or capitalism, just greedy. Free-market economies determine the cost of an item: what someone can or is willing to pay for something, not the absolute most the creator/provider can demand.
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not a free market, at least in the United States. He was counting on the expense involved in convincing the FDA that a generic drug is equivalent to an approved drug like Daraprim to make it impractical for anyone else to start providing a less expensive generic form of pyrimethamine. Since he came to pharmaceuticals from a background as a hedge fund manager, he presumably wasn't aware that a compounding pharmacy wouldn't be faced with the FDA roadblocks that would keep out a manufacturer of generic drugs.
The failure of his plans? Couldn't happen to a more deserving pirate.]]>dgt2242015-10-30T06:01:53-00:00Re: HIV Medicine Price hike
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something technical and financial
Bye!
Gotta love Karma]]>timmy2015-12-17T17:22:38-00:00Re: HIV Medicine Price hike
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1 2056164/Businessman-Martin-Shkreli-who-increased-Aids-relate d-drug-price-arrested-on-fraud-charges.html]]>Nigel2015-12-18T16:40:48-00:00