Comment on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes

• todayisthegreatest@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Martin gave the medication for free/reduced prices to people who couldn’t afford it. It was literally a smear campaign.

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  • EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Really? Everyone who couldn’t afford it had access through him? This is certainly a revelation, and not something made up from the internet.

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    • todayisthegreatest@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      vanityfair.com/…/martin-shkreli-pharmaceuticals-c…

      his real goal is to invent new drugs for rare diseases. Turing recently announced discounts of Dara­prim for hospitals, and Shkreli says that for people without insurance it will cost only $1 a pill. For everyone else, insurance, which he argues is paid for by corporate America’s profits, will cover the cost.

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      • EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m surprised, it does seem that this is true. I read a lot of articles where he announced that people could apply for medication, or medicaid would pay $0.01 per pill. I couldn’t find anything about where to apply or one people who have applied and been able to get this medication, but there is already a generic alternative, so this program might be dead in the water.

        As for smear campaign, I’m not so sure. Everytime I read quotes from him, it seems he just really likes to play the “bad boy”. Maybe he just wants people to think pharmaceutical companies are scumbags, so when he ran one he purposefully made himself look bad. Shkreli definitely didn’t seem to care that people got a bad impression of him.

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