American leaders addicted to drugs high prices

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Consider what got Martin Shkreli in trouble with the law. Shrkeli is the infamous “pharma bro” who bought patents to lifesaving drugs then hiked their prices to obscene levels. In one egregious example, he raised the price of a 62-year-old drug crucial to AIDS patients by over 5,000 percent.

But this money-or-your-life extortion racket isn’t the root of the case against him. It’s whether he lied to investors.

Defrauding investors is illegal. Charging outrageous prices to desperate patients is not (a point that Shkreli himself repeatedly makes). This is the only advanced country that puts its people’s lives at the mercy of corporate barracudas.

For those who think they can stop these gougers through shaming or otherwise showing them the error of their ways, I wish them luck. Better to pitch a harder ball and get government on the side of the public.

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[BigmanPigman]

1. As long as Big Pharm and Health Insur lobbyists are allowed to buy our gov't

this will continue. They have no shame and sleep soundly every night while millions die, get more ill, go bankrupt, or all of the above,