Company hikes price 5,000% for drug that fights complication of AIDS, cancer

[David_42]

Disgusting..
Company hikes price 5,000% for drug that fights complication of AIDS, cancer

A drug treating a common parasite that attacks people with weakened immune systems increased in cost 5,000% to $750 per pill.

At a time of heightened attention to the rising cost of prescription drugs, doctors who treat patients with AIDS and cancer are denouncing the new cost to treat a condition that can be life-threatening.

Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill last month, shortly after purchasing the rights to the drug from Impax Laboratories. Turing has exclusive rights to market Daraprim (pyrimethamine), on the market since 1953.

Daraprim fights toxoplasmosis, the second most common food-borne disease, which can easily infect people whose immune systems have been weakened by AIDS, chemotherapy or even pregnancy, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

“This is a tremendous increase," said Judith Aberg, a spokesperson for the HIV Medicine Association. Even patients with insurance could have trouble affording the medication, she said. That's because insurance companies often put high-price drugs in the "specialty" category, requiring patients to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year. Patients whose insurance plans require them to pay 20% of the cost — a common practice — would shell out $150 a pill.

About 60 million people in the United States may carry the Toxoplasma parasite, according to the CDC. It comes from eating under-cooked meat, cooking with contaminated knives and boards, drinking unclean water and contact with infected cat feces.

Mothers can also pass it to their children during pregnancy and organ transplant patients can get it through an infected donor. Symptoms can feel flu-like, but the parasite attacks the brain and can lead to blindness or brain damage.

 

[ScienceRocks]

This is why such needs to be regulated by the government as corporations are evil.

 

[Blackrook]

This is why such needs to be regulated by the government as corporations are evil.

Name one corporation that has killed millions of people, and forced millions into starvation.

I can't think of one corporation that has done that, but there are plenty of governments who have.

I can't probe your mind, but I'm guessing at some point you were brainwashed.

 

[Mr. H.]

Disgusting..
Company hikes price 5,000% for drug that fights complication of AIDS, cancer

A drug treating a common parasite that attacks people with weakened immune systems increased in cost 5,000% to $750 per pill.

At a time of heightened attention to the rising cost of prescription drugs, doctors who treat patients with AIDS and cancer are denouncing the new cost to treat a condition that can be life-threatening.

Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill last month, shortly after purchasing the rights to the drug from Impax Laboratories. Turing has exclusive rights to market Daraprim (pyrimethamine), on the market since 1953.

Daraprim fights toxoplasmosis, the second most common food-borne disease, which can easily infect people whose immune systems have been weakened by AIDS, chemotherapy or even pregnancy, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

“This is a tremendous increase," said Judith Aberg, a spokesperson for the HIV Medicine Association. Even patients with insurance could have trouble affording the medication, she said. That's because insurance companies often put high-price drugs in the "specialty" category, requiring patients to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year. Patients whose insurance plans require them to pay 20% of the cost — a common practice — would shell out $150 a pill.

About 60 million people in the United States may carry the Toxoplasma parasite, according to the CDC. It comes from eating under-cooked meat, cooking with contaminated knives and boards, drinking unclean water and contact with infected cat feces.

Mothers can also pass it to their children during pregnancy and organ transplant patients can get it through an infected donor. Symptoms can feel flu-like, but the parasite attacks the brain and can lead to blindness or brain damage.

Go start a drug company, spend decades researching and developing medicines, then tell us how you will charge $1.00 per pill.

You are just like the stupid fuckers that decrie oil company profits.

 

[David_42]

Disgusting..
Company hikes price 5,000% for drug that fights complication of AIDS, cancer

A drug treating a common parasite that attacks people with weakened immune systems increased in cost 5,000% to $750 per pill.

At a time of heightened attention to the rising cost of prescription drugs, doctors who treat patients with AIDS and cancer are denouncing the new cost to treat a condition that can be life-threatening.

Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill last month, shortly after purchasing the rights to the drug from Impax Laboratories. Turing has exclusive rights to market Daraprim (pyrimethamine), on the market since 1953.

Daraprim fights toxoplasmosis, the second most common food-borne disease, which can easily infect people whose immune systems have been weakened by AIDS, chemotherapy or even pregnancy, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

“This is a tremendous increase," said Judith Aberg, a spokesperson for the HIV Medicine Association. Even patients with insurance could have trouble affording the medication, she said. That's because insurance companies often put high-price drugs in the "specialty" category, requiring patients to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year. Patients whose insurance plans require them to pay 20% of the cost — a common practice — would shell out $150 a pill.

About 60 million people in the United States may carry the Toxoplasma parasite, according to the CDC. It comes from eating under-cooked meat, cooking with contaminated knives and boards, drinking unclean water and contact with infected cat feces.

Mothers can also pass it to their children during pregnancy and organ transplant patients can get it through an infected donor. Symptoms can feel flu-like, but the parasite attacks the brain and can lead to blindness or brain damage.

Go start a drug company, spend decades researching and developing medicines, then tell us how you will charge $1.00 per pill.

You are just like the stupid fuckers that decrie oil company profits.

Are you fucking kidding me? You cannot justify what this company did.
"Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill last month, shortly after purchasing the rights to the drug from Impax Laboratories. " RESEARCH MY ASS.

 

[Mr. H.]

Disgusting..
Company hikes price 5,000% for drug that fights complication of AIDS, cancer

A drug treating a common parasite that attacks people with weakened immune systems increased in cost 5,000% to $750 per pill.

At a time of heightened attention to the rising cost of prescription drugs, doctors who treat patients with AIDS and cancer are denouncing the new cost to treat a condition that can be life-threatening.

Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill last month, shortly after purchasing the rights to the drug from Impax Laboratories. Turing has exclusive rights to market Daraprim (pyrimethamine), on the market since 1953.

Daraprim fights toxoplasmosis, the second most common food-borne disease, which can easily infect people whose immune systems have been weakened by AIDS, chemotherapy or even pregnancy, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

“This is a tremendous increase," said Judith Aberg, a spokesperson for the HIV Medicine Association. Even patients with insurance could have trouble affording the medication, she said. That's because insurance companies often put high-price drugs in the "specialty" category, requiring patients to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year. Patients whose insurance plans require them to pay 20% of the cost — a common practice — would shell out $150 a pill.

About 60 million people in the United States may carry the Toxoplasma parasite, according to the CDC. It comes from eating under-cooked meat, cooking with contaminated knives and boards, drinking unclean water and contact with infected cat feces.

Mothers can also pass it to their children during pregnancy and organ transplant patients can get it through an infected donor. Symptoms can feel flu-like, but the parasite attacks the brain and can lead to blindness or brain damage.

Go start a drug company, spend decades researching and developing medicines, then tell us how you will charge $1.00 per pill.

You are just like the stupid fuckers that decrie oil company profits.

Are you fucking kidding me? You cannot justify what this company did.
"Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill last month, shortly after purchasing the rights to the drug from Impax Laboratories. " RESEARCH MY ASS.

Obama has a pen and a phone. What are you worried about?

 

[David_42]

Disgusting..
Company hikes price 5,000% for drug that fights complication of AIDS, cancer

A drug treating a common parasite that attacks people with weakened immune systems increased in cost 5,000% to $750 per pill.

At a time of heightened attention to the rising cost of prescription drugs, doctors who treat patients with AIDS and cancer are denouncing the new cost to treat a condition that can be life-threatening.

Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill last month, shortly after purchasing the rights to the drug from Impax Laboratories. Turing has exclusive rights to market Daraprim (pyrimethamine), on the market since 1953.

Daraprim fights toxoplasmosis, the second most common food-borne disease, which can easily infect people whose immune systems have been weakened by AIDS, chemotherapy or even pregnancy, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

“This is a tremendous increase," said Judith Aberg, a spokesperson for the HIV Medicine Association. Even patients with insurance could have trouble affording the medication, she said. That's because insurance companies often put high-price drugs in the "specialty" category, requiring patients to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year. Patients whose insurance plans require them to pay 20% of the cost — a common practice — would shell out $150 a pill.

About 60 million people in the United States may carry the Toxoplasma parasite, according to the CDC. It comes from eating under-cooked meat, cooking with contaminated knives and boards, drinking unclean water and contact with infected cat feces.

Mothers can also pass it to their children during pregnancy and organ transplant patients can get it through an infected donor. Symptoms can feel flu-like, but the parasite attacks the brain and can lead to blindness or brain damage.

Go start a drug company, spend decades researching and developing medicines, then tell us how you will charge $1.00 per pill.

You are just like the stupid fuckers that decrie oil company profits.

Are you fucking kidding me? You cannot justify what this company did.
"Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill last month, shortly after purchasing the rights to the drug from Impax Laboratories. " RESEARCH MY ASS.

Obama has a pen and a phone. What are you worried about?

It's noted your posts are pointless insults to our president.

 

[Mr. H.]

Disgusting..
Company hikes price 5,000% for drug that fights complication of AIDS, cancer

A drug treating a common parasite that attacks people with weakened immune systems increased in cost 5,000% to $750 per pill.

At a time of heightened attention to the rising cost of prescription drugs, doctors who treat patients with AIDS and cancer are denouncing the new cost to treat a condition that can be life-threatening.

Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill last month, shortly after purchasing the rights to the drug from Impax Laboratories. Turing has exclusive rights to market Daraprim (pyrimethamine), on the market since 1953.

Daraprim fights toxoplasmosis, the second most common food-borne disease, which can easily infect people whose immune systems have been weakened by AIDS, chemotherapy or even pregnancy, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

“This is a tremendous increase," said Judith Aberg, a spokesperson for the HIV Medicine Association. Even patients with insurance could have trouble affording the medication, she said. That's because insurance companies often put high-price drugs in the "specialty" category, requiring patients to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year. Patients whose insurance plans require them to pay 20% of the cost — a common practice — would shell out $150 a pill.

About 60 million people in the United States may carry the Toxoplasma parasite, according to the CDC. It comes from eating under-cooked meat, cooking with contaminated knives and boards, drinking unclean water and contact with infected cat feces.

Mothers can also pass it to their children during pregnancy and organ transplant patients can get it through an infected donor. Symptoms can feel flu-like, but the parasite attacks the brain and can lead to blindness or brain damage.

Go start a drug company, spend decades researching and developing medicines, then tell us how you will charge $1.00 per pill.

You are just like the stupid fuckers that decrie oil company profits.

Are you fucking kidding me? You cannot justify what this company did.
"Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill last month, shortly after purchasing the rights to the drug from Impax Laboratories. " RESEARCH MY ASS.

Obama has a pen and a phone. What are you worried about?

It's noted your posts are pointless insults to our president.

It's a direct quote from your president.

Hapless, hopeless Liberals never cease to amuse me.

 

[David_42]

Disgusting..
Company hikes price 5,000% for drug that fights complication of AIDS, cancer

Go start a drug company, spend decades researching and developing medicines, then tell us how you will charge $1.00 per pill.

You are just like the stupid fuckers that decrie oil company profits.

Are you fucking kidding me? You cannot justify what this company did.
"Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill last month, shortly after purchasing the rights to the drug from Impax Laboratories. " RESEARCH MY ASS.

Obama has a pen and a phone. What are you worried about?

It's noted your posts are pointless insults to our president.

It's a direct quote from your president.

Hapless, hopeless Liberals never cease to amuse me.

Obama directly said: "Obama has a pen and a phone?" Where?

 

[ScienceRocks]

What this company did was evil. The fucking super rich has destroyed competition and so corporations like this can get away with shit like this.

We need government to kick some ass.

 

[Mr. H.]

Go start a drug company, spend decades researching and developing medicines, then tell us how you will charge $1.00 per pill.

You are just like the stupid fuckers that decrie oil company profits.

Are you fucking kidding me? You cannot justify what this company did.
"Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill last month, shortly after purchasing the rights to the drug from Impax Laboratories. " RESEARCH MY ASS.

Obama has a pen and a phone. What are you worried about?

It's noted your posts are pointless insults to our president.

It's a direct quote from your president.

Hapless, hopeless Liberals never cease to amuse me.

Obama directly said: "Obama has a pen and a phone?" Where?

No where in particular...

Seven years after His Coronation, and you are still living the lie. Democrats are the most deluded and delusional of people...

 

[David_42]

Are you fucking kidding me? You cannot justify what this company did.
"Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill last month, shortly after purchasing the rights to the drug from Impax Laboratories. " RESEARCH MY ASS.

Obama has a pen and a phone. What are you worried about?

It's noted your posts are pointless insults to our president.

It's a direct quote from your president.

Hapless, hopeless Liberals never cease to amuse me.

Obama directly said: "Obama has a pen and a phone?" Where?

No where in particular...

Seven years after His Coronation, and you are still living the lie. Democrats are the most deluded and delusional of people...

What lie?

 

[Mr. H.]

Obama has a pen and a phone. What are you worried about?

It's noted your posts are pointless insults to our president.

It's a direct quote from your president.

Hapless, hopeless Liberals never cease to amuse me.

Obama directly said: "Obama has a pen and a phone?" Where?

No where in particular...

Seven years after His Coronation, and you are still living the lie. Democrats are the most deluded and delusional of people...

What lie?

I am not you. And thank goodness for that. Go crawl up someone else's ignorant ass.

 

[David_42]

It's noted your posts are pointless insults to our president.

It's a direct quote from your president.

Hapless, hopeless Liberals never cease to amuse me.

Obama directly said: "Obama has a pen and a phone?" Where?

No where in particular...

Seven years after His Coronation, and you are still living the lie. Democrats are the most deluded and delusional of people...

What lie?

I am not you. And thank goodness for that. Go crawl up someone else's ignorant ass.

I'm happy you're not me. Go back to insulting obama.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

This is why such needs to be regulated by the government as corporations are evil.

This is why you need an education in economics.

Government protects this stuff to start with.

You really think that the government can defends you from their masters.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

What this company did was evil. The fucking super rich has destroyed competition and so corporations like this can get away with shit like this.

We need government to kick some ass.

Why don't you just steal the formulation from them ?

It'll be the last new drug to hit the market.

Unless you are somehow developing drugs in your basement.

I don't agree with what's gone on here.

But you thinking government is going to do something is beyond silly.

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

Company hikes price 5,000% for drug that fights complication of AIDS, cancer

ROFLMNAO!

I say it here and it comes out THERE!

 

[LogikAndReazon]

Civil servants should develop a free drug......for the people ! Lol

 

[whitehall]

I thought the Clinton's war on big Pharm and Barry Hussein's victory in the 5,000 page health care law that nobody ever read, cured (pun intended) that problem.

 

[guno]

Hopefully the CEO is "persuaded" To change his mind