RE: Martin Shkreli is fascinating
February 20, 2016 at 10:09 pm
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2016 at 10:36 pm by bennyboy.)
(February 20, 2016 at 9:20 pm)abaris Wrote:(February 20, 2016 at 8:50 pm)Exian Wrote: I knew he hiked the prices, but I also knew he was a privileged little idiot prick with half a brain cell. Except that he's not. If the media continued to have their way, I wouldn't know that he worked his way up to his current position and is actually extremely bright.
So? Present me with some evidence of him not being a money hungry prick and I will start to show some respect. Anyone, please. Not his PR movies, not his recorded one on ones, not interviews, but facts. Prove me wrong and I will revise my opinion the next second.
Because words are words and facts are facts. In lights of that, I don't care if he crawled out of a gutter or was born with a golden spoon. His actions speak, not his mouth.
Here's a start:
http://www.fiercepharma.com/press-releas...imethamine
This includes a toll-free number for access to the drug. It doesn't mention specifically who will pay how much, but it seems like a good place to start.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/turing-to-di...1448405672
The above says:
Quote:Aside from offering discounts to hospitals, Turing also will start selling bottles containing 30 tablets, which would help hospitals that don’t use a lot of the pills and don’t go through all of the 100 tablet bottles that have been on sale.
In addition, Turing said it will start giving out free samples to doctors for starting patients on the drug.
The company also pledged to cut the out-of-pocket costs of the drug to no more than $10 a prescription if commercially insured patients use its copay assistance program. And Turing said it was contributing to a charity that could help Medicare patients afford their out-of-pocket costs.
The company said it will give the drug free of charge to patients whose incomes are at or below 500% of the poverty line.
Now, it could be that all of this is just corporate damage control, and they only did it to save face. But so far, the facts seem to be consistent with Shkreli's words. They do not, in my opinion, seem to be consistent with the media's portrayal of him as the incarnation of Satan.
