Two weeks after Turing CEO Martin Shkeli assured the world he would lower the price of his drug, nothing has actually changed, reports Tech Insider.
Last month, Shkeli provoked outrage when it was revealed he planned to dramatically raise the price of Daraprim, a drug that helps fight parasitic infections.
The drug rose from $13.50 to $750; a 5000% price hike.
Speaking to ABC News last month, he said, “We’ve agreed to lower the price of Daraprim to a point that is more affordable and is able to allow the company to make a profit, but a very small profit.”
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So far, that’s yet to happen.
The price hasn’t gotten any higher in recent days, but it hasn’t gotten any lower, either.
A 30-day supply purchased at your nearest pharmacy would cost you $27,006; roughly $900 a pill.
Mike Benevenstanciano
Big fucking surprise.
Wayne Wilke
Douche
Bill Mountrey
Too busy trying to get laid with a hooker.
Nicolas Wysocki
Jesus Christ, I hate his creepy ass face.
Fredrick Bertz
Hypocritical, greedy asshat!
Sidney Davies
Because he’s a scum bag
Mike Benevenstanciano
It’s cases like this that we need legislation to stop this kind of profiteering
Brian JC Kneeland
he is a scam artist!
Troy Geary
God I just want to punch that face so so hard.
Patrick Riley
Fucking asshole.
Desert Boy
I look at his face and all I want to do is kick his ass. Arrogant, greedy fucktard.
Bo Cash
If there is a Hell, a spot, just for him is ready…. What a punk this kid is….
Mikey Trapp
So, I’ll preface by saying I don’t know so feel free to educate me, but aren’t the insurance companies the ones that are going to absorb this cost?
Randy Bowling
Just another young cocky CEO, who lied and told you what you wanted to hear. SHOCKING!!!!!
M J Martinez Crogan
Ask your doctor to prescribe something else
William Meyer
I think it’s time for ACT UP to surface again!
Jim Philbrick
Lil bitch needs to be slapped
Jerry Mitchell
What an A**Hole
Hussain-TheCanadian
Ugly disgusting twerp – My American Brothers and sisters need to take their country back from the hands of people like him.
I don’t understand the indifference, I really don’t.
Donna Balser
ShMurk Shmiles ..only a mother could love that face…
Sam Theman
I hope his hands wither, and his dick stays soft!
Charles Schultz
Karma has his name.
1EqualityUSA
Shkeli mushrooms are dark, poisonous, and parasitic to tall trees. It’s not all fungus n games.
Thomas Riccobuono
Okay sucidide bombers you have a new target.
Adrian Ornelas
DTGMSAD??
Sandy Novak
Because sociopath.
Ronnyboy
@Troy Geary:Get in line.
Mark Pointon
Evil fucking womble…
Ronald Wei
Start the shrieking again!
Ronald Wei
Why doesn’t he have a costume at Party City?
Kevin J Desmond
Id love to slam him in the throat with a baseball bat … just to see him choke on his own blood.
marc sfe
@Mikey Trapp: Yes they will but that then adds to the cost of insurance – – insurance companies aren’t going to absorb higher and higher costs without making insurance premiums higher and higher, or, put that drug on their list of things they won’t cover. Insurance companies are not philanthropic. They’re in this to make money, just like big pharma.
Jessie Munguia
What a douche bag.
BigG
He looks like the Lord of rings precious troll thing
David Chachki
Kill him.
Chris Duffy
Sociopath. When other people so blatantly threaten the health and lives of others, WE LOCK THEM UP. Why does this guy get a pass? ‘Capitalism’?
Ruben Valdez
What an ass!
Chris Sledge
John Autore
Glenn Cheatham
Bastard!!!
FStratford
I often hear the argument that there is no cure for AIDS today because finding a cure is unprofitable – because governments will force you to sell them at a low price. So drug companies generally dont have an incentive to find a cure. (Only governments actively invest on finding a cure, because they dont have to make profits)
Perhaps if the cure for AIDS becomes profitable, private companies will finally invest in finding a cure.
Now, the price he chose is obviously too high for people to afford… so I dont see how he can make profits if not enough people will buy.
Alex Rothwell
He’s an A-hole.
Mike Cooke
what a smug bastard
Daniel-Reader
So then does that mean people can do a Dallas Buyers Club for this drug and get it for $3 or so in Canada, right? So people don’t die from being deprived a life-saving drug, right?
Billysees
@Nicolas Wysocki:
” Jesus Christ, I hate his creepy ass face. ”
@Troy Geary:
” God I just want to punch that face so so hard. ”
@Jim Philbrick:
” Lil bitch needs to be slapped ”
Hehehe…funny…
Robert Walsh
Smug slug!
Deb Kerak
ASSHOLE
John Andrew K. Carver
I bet this little weenie has a little weenie.
Octavio Roca
Time to Act Up on this amurderous sshole.
David Rogers
Creep. I’m sure a lot of people would like to knock that smug look off his face.
john.k
I’m afraid I’ve come to the conclusion that Americans can be very stupid. They allow themselves to be ripped off. There was a letter in The Irish Times last week from a man who had visited Florida earlier in the year. While he was on a beach a jackdaw swooped and made off with a medicine he had. He had bought the bottle for £3.50 in Britain. In Ireland the same bottle sells for about €17. But 3 pharmacies in Florida quoted him $196 for the bottle. And he said it was a generic medicine that has been around for more than a century. His conclusion was that the most common surgical operation in the US is a walletectomy
Don Hanover
he’s also still an asshole
Bob LaBlah
So help me I hope the day comes when I read about him being VIOLENTLY gay bashed and no one pulled out their phone to call for help nor to record the attackers.
cabe
Its obvious he just told everyone he’d lower the price to shut them up and then hope everyone would forget the whole situation so he can continue being a d-bag.
Joe Hovey
WTF!
Randall Parisy
He looks like he’s just one step away from downs in this picture.
Vivienne Warner
Just watch the face he really does not care what you think .Maybe if the tax man wanted to see his books .
Cam
Sounds like he made a promise. People or hospitals needing the medication should just sue for fraud and breach of promise.
HO Weng Choy
Still smiling and please about it, face of an onion skin, a layer peel off another one ,out it come
alphacentauri
Nobody should be surprised about this.
Joe
@Ronald Wei:
He does… it’s either of a green little man, the devil himself, or a dollar sign suit. Take your pick.