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Don't hate the player, hate the game.
If the drug would have just been approved and came onto the market, it could have sold for more than what he's charging. There are life saving cancer drugs on the market that cost more per pill than those, and how about Viagra costing so much? No one bats and eyelid at the Pfizer family becoming uber-billionaires off our boners. No single medication should cost what it does. Even if it were made out of weapons grade uranium and Dodo bird tears, it still shouldn't cost $1000 per pill.
So he's pricing his pill based on current market value for a life saving drug. Yeah, people are painting him as a douche-bag, but as a business man, I can't have ill feelings toward the guy. Let's say you get a manufacturer hookup for iPads for $15 each. Are you going to sell them for $15 or the current market value? Are you a cock sucker because you're making so much profit?
If your life is worth it, then find a way to pay for the pill. If you can't afford it, then become a hedge fund manager or take chemistry courses and start your own pharma company.
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